Amd 28, Ag & Mkts L; amd 2, Chap of 2021 (as proposed in S.1056 & A.4613)
Creates an advisory group which shall produce a report on improving urban and rural consumer access to locally produced, healthy foods; provides such group shall include representatives from agriculture, food access organizations, food retailers and economic development agencies; makes changes to the effectiveness.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8765
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to a report
on improving urban and rural consumer access to locally produced,
healthy foods, and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the
agriculture and markets law relating to the task force on improving
urban and rural consumer access to locally produced, healthy foods, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1056 and A. 4613, in relation
to the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 28 of the agriculture and markets law, as added by
2 a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the agriculture and markets law
3 relating to the task force on improving urban and rural consumer access
4 to locally produced, healthy foods, as proposed in legislative bills
5 numbers S. 1056 and A. 4613, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 28. [Task force on] Advisory group for improving urban and rural
7 consumer access to locally produced, healthy foods. [1. There is hereby
8 created the task force on improving urban and rural consumer access to
9 locally produced, healthy foods. The task force is to be comprised of
10 eleven members. Such task force shall have one ex-officio chairperson,
11 who shall be the] The commissioner [or his or her designee. Four members
12 shall be appointed by the governor, two members shall be appointed by
13 the temporary president of the senate, two members shall be appointed by
14 the speaker of the assembly, one member shall be appointed by the minor-
15 ity leader of the senate and one member shall be appointed by the minor-
16 ity leader of the assembly. The appointed members of such task force
17 shall be representative of:
18 (a) a farm engaged in growing crops, livestock or livestock products,
19 as defined in section three hundred one of this chapter;
20 (b) not-for-profit food access organizations dedicated to expanding
21 access of underserved, urban and rural communities to healthy, locally
22 produced food;
23 (c) the grocery industry; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) economic development agencies serving county, New York state and
2 New York city government.
3 Any vacancy on such task force shall be filled by the original
4 appointing authority. Task force members shall receive no compensation
5 for their services but shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary
6 travel expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
7 2. The mission of the task force is] shall convene an advisory group
8 with representatives from agriculture, food access organizations, food
9 retailers and economic development agencies to identify strategies and
10 opportunities to expand access for underserved, nutritionally deficient
11 urban and rural communities to healthy, locally produced food in New
12 York state[. The task force shall develop and identify], including iden-
13 tifying new and innovative methods to increase the production, marketing
14 and distribution of locally produced, fresh food in such communities in
15 New York state.
16 [3.] Not later than one year after the effective date of this section,
17 [the task force] a report shall [report] be delivered by the commission-
18 er to the governor and the legislature on [its activities,] the findings
19 and recommendations of such advisory group.
20 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the agricul-
21 ture and markets law relating to the task force on improving urban and
22 rural consumer access to locally produced, healthy foods, as proposed in
23 legislative bills numbers S. 1056 and A. 4613, is amended to read as
24 follows:
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
26 deemed repealed [December 31, 2025] after the report required pursuant
27 to section one of this act has been delivered.
28 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided however that
29 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
30 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the agriculture
31 and markets law relating to the task force on improving urban and rural
32 consumer access to locally produced, healthy foods, as proposed in
33 legislative bills numbers S. 1056 and A. 4613, takes effect.
