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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         627--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 5, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. KLEIN, BONACIC, CARLUCCI, DILAN, KRUEGER, MONTGOM-
          ERY, OPPENHEIMER, PARKER, SAVINO, VALESKY -- read  twice  and  ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corpo-
          rations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted to  the  Committee

          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Senate
          Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed
          to  the  Committee  on  Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the New York state urban development corporation act, in
          relation to developing local and regional wholesale  farmers'  markets
          to promote foods grown in New York state
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 16-m of section 1 of  chapter  174
     2  of  the  laws of 1968, constituting the New York state urban development
     3  corporation act, is amended by adding a new paragraph  (n)  to  read  as
     4  follows:

     5    (n)  Loans,  loan  guarantees,  interest subsidies and grants to busi-
     6  nesses, municipalities, industrial development agencies  and  local  and
     7  regional economic development corporations, not-for-profit corporations,
     8  business improvement districts, regional marketing authorities and agri-
     9  cultural cooperatives organized pursuant to the cooperative corporations
    10  law,  and  other entities for the construction, reconstruction, improve-
    11  ment, expansion or rehabilitation of wholesale regional farmers' markets
    12  or food hubs that facilitate the sale and  promotion  of  farm  products
    13  grown or produced in New York state.
    14    For  the  purposes  of  this  paragraph  a wholesale regional farmers'

    15  market or food hub is a market, business or organization  that  actively
    16  manages the aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 627--A                           2
 
     1  food  products  primarily  from  local  or regional producers to satisfy
     2  wholesale, retail and institutional demand for such products.
     3    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
     4  ments to section 16-m of section 1 of chapter 174 of the laws  of  1968,
     5  constituting  the New York state urban development corporation act, made

     6  by section one of this act, shall not  affect  the  expiration  of  such
     7  section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.