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A07020 Summary:
BILL NO | A07020A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S09248 |
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SPONSOR | Lupardo |
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COSPNSR | Santabarbara |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §309-a, Ag & Mkts L | |
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Expands the young farmer advisory board on agriculture to become the beginning farmer advisory board on agriculture. |
A07020 Actions:
BILL NO | A07020A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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05/10/2023 | referred to agriculture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2023 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/03/2024 | referred to agriculture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/02/2024 | amend and recommit to agriculture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/02/2024 | print number 7020a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/21/2024 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/22/2024 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/22/2024 | rules report cal.104 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/22/2024 | ordered to third reading rules cal.104 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2024 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2024 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
05/23/2024 | REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/04/2024 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S9248 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/04/2024 | 3RD READING CAL.1460 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/04/2024 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
06/04/2024 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
A07020 Committee Votes:
Lupardo | Aye | Tague | Aye | ||||||
Gunther | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | Hawley | Excused | ||||||
Barrett | Aye | Fitzpatrick | Aye | ||||||
Stirpe | Aye | Miller | Aye | ||||||
Santabarbara | Aye | Friend | Aye | ||||||
Woerner | Aye | Lemondes | Aye | ||||||
Jones | Aye | ||||||||
Williams | Aye | ||||||||
Buttenschon | Aye | ||||||||
Kelles | Aye | ||||||||
Septimo | Aye | ||||||||
Zinerman | Aye | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Cunningham | Aye | ||||||||
Raga | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | Tague | Aye | ||||||
Gunther | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Barrett | Aye | Fitzpatrick | Excused | ||||||
Stirpe | Aye | Miller | Aye | ||||||
Woerner | Aye | Friend | Aye | ||||||
Jones | Aye | Lemondes | Aye | ||||||
Williams | Aye | ||||||||
Buttenschon | Aye | ||||||||
Kelles | Aye | ||||||||
Septimo | Aye | ||||||||
Zinerman | Excused | ||||||||
Cruz | Aye | ||||||||
Cunningham | Aye | ||||||||
Raga | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Excused | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Dickens | Excused | ||||||||
Davila | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
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A07020 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fall
Yes
Kelles
ER
Otis
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Carroll
Yes ‡
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Flood
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Chang
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Clark
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lemondes
Yes ‡
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
ER
Colton
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gallahan
ER
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Berger
Yes
Curran
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Dais
Yes
Glick
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes ‡
Thiele
ER
Blumencranz
Yes
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Bores
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes ‡
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal
Yes
Walker
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
DeStefano
ER
Gunther
Yes
McGowan
Yes ‡
Rozic
Yes ‡
Wallace
Yes
Braunstein
ER
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Bronson
ER
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Sayegh
ER
Weinstein
Yes
Brook-Krasny
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Mikulin
ER
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown EA
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Miller
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shrestha
ER
Zaccaro
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Norris
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
ER
Burke
ER
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Simon
ER
Zinerman
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A07020 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7020--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO, SANTABARBARA -- (at request of the Department of Agriculture and Markets) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agri- culture in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the beginning farmer advisory board on agriculture The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 309-a of the agriculture and markets law, as added 2 by chapter 129 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 309-a. [Young] Beginning farmer advisory board on agriculture. 1. 4 There shall be established within the department the [young] beginning 5 farmer advisory board on agriculture, to advise and make recommendations 6 to the state agencies on state government plans, policies and programs 7 affecting agriculture, as outlined below, and in such areas as its expe- 8 rience and studies may indicate to be appropriate. [The department shall9provide necessary secretariat and support services to the board.] 10 2. The [young] beginning farmer advisory board on agriculture shall 11 consist of [twenty] twenty-five members[, ten to be appointed by the12governor, with the advice and consent of the senate and assembly,] 13 selected for their experience and expertise related to areas of board 14 responsibility[. The board shall be] and comprised of diverse members of 15 the agriculture industry, including the commissioner, or the commission- 16 er's designee, with the remaining members selected as follows: 17 (a) [Of] The commissioner shall appoint the [twenty] following eleven 18 board members [appointed to the board]: 19 (1) one [shall be] representative from the [department;20(2) one shall be from the] empire state development corporation; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05979-02-4A. 7020--A 2 1 [(3)] (2) one [shall be an] officer of the Future Farmers of America 2 (FFA); 3 [(4)] (3) one representative from the department of labor; 4 (4) one [shall be an] urban farmer; 5 (5) one [shall be] representative from the New York Farm Bureau;[and6(6) fifteen shall be from the general public appointed as follows:7five to be appointed by the temporary president of the senate, five to8be appointed by the speaker of the assembly, and five to be appointed by9the governor.] 10 (6) one participant from the Cornell small farms program; 11 (7) one representative from the United States department of agricul- 12 ture; 13 (8) one organic farmer; 14 (9) one veteran farmer; 15 (10) one representative from the Young Farmers coalition; 16 (11) one member of a group identified in the most recent United States 17 department of agriculture census of agriculture that is currently under- 18 represented in farm ownership; and 19 (b) The remaining thirteen board members shall be from entry level 20 farmers or novice farmers, agriculture service providers, financial and 21 legal service providers to farm operators, Cornell Cooperative Extension 22 representatives, advocacy organization representatives, academics, agri- 23 cultural leaders, and/or others who can contribute to the work of the 24 advisory board on issues, including, among others: access to land and 25 capital, grants, business planning, farm processes and government 26 programs selected as follows: seven appointed by the commissioner; two 27 appointed by the temporary president of the senate; two appointed by the 28 speaker of the assembly; one appointed by the minority leader of the 29 senate; and one appointed by the minority leader of the assembly. 30 [(b)](c) Each member shall: 31 (1) be interested in the preservation and development of agriculture 32 and preservation of the agricultural way of life in New York; 33 (2) be [under the age of forty-five years old at the beginning of the34member's term] actively involved in farming, agricultural activities, 35 agricultural research and/or providing services to the agricultural 36 community in the state; 37 (3) [derive at least fifty percent of the member's personal income38from farming or agricultural activities in the state;39(4)] be a resident of the state; and 40 [(5)] (4) be appointed for a term of three years and may serve until 41 their successors are chosen; provided, however, that of the members 42 first appointed, [six] eight shall serve for a term of one year, [six] 43 eight shall serve for a term of two years and [eight] nine shall serve 44 for a term of three years. 45 [(c)] (d) Members shall serve without salary but shall be entitled to 46 reimbursement of their ordinary and necessary travel expenses. 47 [(d)] (e) The members of the board shall meet [quarterly] twice a 48 year. 49 (f) The commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, shall chair the 50 board and the department shall provide the necessary secretariat and 51 support services to the board. 52 3. The duties and responsibilities of the [young] beginning farmer 53 advisory board on agriculture shall include, but not be limited to: 54 (a) [annually electing from its members a chairperson, a vice chair-55person, and a secretary of the advisory board at the advisory board's56first meeting of the calendar year;A. 7020--A 3 1(b)] communicating to the [general] public, the federal government, 2 and the state government the importance of [young and] beginning farmers 3 to agriculture in the state; 4 [(c) identify] (b) identifying issues relating to [young and] begin- 5 ning farmers in the state and provide timely advice to the commissioner, 6 the governor and the relevant state agencies, with regard to the 7 promotion of agriculture as a career path and the economic development 8 of [young and aspiring] beginning farmers; 9 [(d) produce an annual](c) producing a biennial report and provide 10 such report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and 11 the speaker of the assembly on or before the end of each calendar year. 12 Such report shall identify and prioritize policy issues which affect 13 [young and aspiring] beginning farmers; and 14 [(e) establish](d) establishing committees, as necessary, to develop 15 projects relating to the aspects of life for [young and] beginning farm- 16 ers in the state. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.