Authorizes and directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to conduct a study on climate resilient crops and climate smart farming practices; requires the commissioner to report to the governor and legislature within one year with recommendations for legislation and administrative programs.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7931
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 4, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to authorize and direct the commissioner of agriculture and
markets to conduct a study on climate resilient crops and climate
smart farming practices
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 climate resilient crops
3 and climate smart farming practices. The purpose of this study shall
4 include but not be limited to examining genetics, technology and manage-
5 ment to decrease yield gaps in farming and examining the effects climate
6 resilient crops and climate smart farming practices would have on access
7 to locally grown food, job creation and educational opportunities, and
8 the impacts on the environment.
9 2. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the commissioner
10 of agriculture and markets shall deliver a report to the governor, the
11 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the
12 minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
13 The report shall include recommendations for legislation and administra-
14 tive programs related to climate resilient crops and climate smart farm-
15 ing practices.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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