Bill Text: NY S07433 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department of agriculture and markets to evaluate their support of farmers age sixty-two years and older.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9215 [S07433 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S07433-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7433 I N S E N A T E May 14, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir- ing the department of agriculture and markets to evaluate their support of farmers age sixty-two years and older THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 47 to read as follows: 3 47. EVALUATE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STATE OFFICE FOR THE AGING, 4 PROGRAMS AND SERVICES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE THAT THEY 5 SUPPORT THE NEEDS OF FARMERS, AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED IN AGRICUL- 6 TURE, AND THE PRODUCTION, PROCESSING, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTING OF 7 FOOD, WHO ARE ALSO SENIORS, WHICH SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL SIXTY-TWO 8 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. 9 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14598-01-4