STATE OF NEW YORK
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4769
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to authorize and direct the commissioner of agriculture and
markets to conduct a study on vertical farming
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The commissioner of agriculture and markets is hereby
2 authorized and directed to conduct a study on vertical farming. The
3 purpose of this study shall include but not be limited to examining the
4 effects vertical farms would have on access to locally grown food, job
5 creation and educational opportunities, and the impacts on the environ-
6 ment.
7 2. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the commissioner
8 of agriculture and markets shall deliver a report to the governor, the
9 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the
10 minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
11 The report shall include recommendations for legislation and administra-
12 tive programs related to the use of vertical farms.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09048-01-5
