Bill Text: NY S06648 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6648 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts the "buy from the backyard act"; requires the office of general services and other state agencies to buy 20% of all their food products from producers and/or processors in New York state; provides that the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall determine the New York food products that are available during the various times during the year; directs such commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation of such provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - referred to agriculture [S06648 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06648-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6648
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the  agriculture  and  markets
          law, in relation to enacting the "buy from the backyard act"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "buy from the backyard act".
     3    §  2.  The opening paragraph of paragraph a, paragraphs b, c, subpara-
     4  graph (i) of paragraph f and paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 165
     5  of the state finance law, the opening paragraph of paragraph a, subpara-
     6  graph (i) of paragraph f and paragraph h as amended by  chapter  533  of
     7  the  laws  of  2013, and paragraphs b and c as amended by chapter 137 of
     8  the laws of 2008, are amended to read as follows:
     9    Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  subdivision,  when  letting
    10  contracts  for the purchase of food products on behalf of facilities and
    11  institutions of the state, solicitation specifications of the office  of
    12  general  services  and  any  other  agency, department, office, board or
    13  commission [may] shall require provisions  that  mandate  that  [all  or
    14  some],  during  each  state fiscal year, not less than twenty percent of
    15  the required food products are grown, produced or harvested in New  York
    16  state, or that any processing of such food products take place in facil-
    17  ities located within New York state.
    18    b.  The  commissioner  of  agriculture and markets shall determine and
    19  certify, using uniform criteria,  those  food  products  for  which  the
    20  requirements  of  this  subdivision are deemed most beneficial and shall
    21  promulgate and forward to the appropriate agencies a list of  such  food
    22  products,  and  shall  in  addition ascertain those periods of time each
    23  year that those food products are available in sufficient quantities for
    24  competitive purchasing and shall forward such information to  purchasing
    25  agencies.  The commissioner of agriculture and markets shall update such
    26  list  as  often  as  is  deemed  by him or her to be necessary.  For the
    27  purposes of this subdivision, "competitive purchasing" of New York  food
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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