Requires certain funds received by the New York state energy research and development authority that are related to renewables development on viable agricultural lands to be used for farmland protection programs; establishes the agricultural and farmland viability protection fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9328--B
R. R. 139
IN ASSEMBLY
February 23, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Energy -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred to the
Committee on Rules -- advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly
and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsid-
ered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the
order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the state finance law, in
relation to requiring certain funds received by the New York state
energy research and development authority that are related to renewa-
bles development on viable agricultural lands to be used for farmland
protection programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1859 of
2 the public authorities law is designated paragraph (a) and a new para-
3 graph (b) is added to read as follows:
4 (b) All funds collected by the authority as a requirement of contracts
5 for the procurement of renewable energy certificates that are related to
6 renewables development on viable agricultural lands, as defined in
7 section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets law, shall be
8 deposited in the agricultural and farmland viability protection fund
9 pursuant to section ninety-nine-pp of the state finance law.
10 § 2. The state finance law is amended by adding a new section 99-pp to
11 read as follows:
12 § 99-pp. Agricultural and farmland viability protection fund. 1.
13 There is hereby established in the joint custody of the comptroller and
14 the commissioner of taxation and finance a special fund to be known as
15 the "agricultural and farmland viability protection fund".
16 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues received pursuant to the
17 provisions of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighteen
18 hundred fifty-nine of the public authorities law and all other moneys
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 appropriated, credited, or transferred thereto from any other fund or
2 source pursuant to law.
3 3. All moneys deposited in the agricultural and farmland viability
4 protection fund shall be available for agricultural and farmland
5 protection activities pursuant to article twenty-five-AAA of the agri-
6 culture and markets law.
7 4. Monies shall be payable from the fund on the audit and warrant of
8 the comptroller on vouchers approved and certified by the commissioner
9 of agriculture and markets.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law and shall apply to all contracts issued on and after
12 such date.
