Establishes a training program to foster awareness of laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the farming industry; provides for funding of such program from fines collected pursuant to certain violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1917--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
establishing a training program for owners and employees of farming
operations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
2 new section 17-0307 to read as follows:
3 § 17-0307. Environmental regulations training program.
4 The commissioner shall establish a training program to foster aware-
5 ness among owners and employees of a farming operation of state environ-
6 mental laws, rules and regulations pertaining to the farming industry.
7 Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, all
8 fines collected pursuant to violations of part seven hundred fifty of
9 title six of the New York code of rules and regulations involving
10 concentrated animal feeding operations shall be under the sole custody
11 of the commissioner and shall be used for the sole purpose of funding
12 the training program established by this section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07619-02-7
