STATE OF NEW YORK
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3015
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 19, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to author-
izing electronic benefit transfer technology at community supported
agriculture markets
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 262 of the agri-
2 culture and markets law, as added by section 4 of part U of chapter 60
3 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) equipment costs associated with improving farmers' market func-
5 tions, including but not limited to expanding access to electronic bene-
6 fit transfer technology for farmers' markets, community supported agri-
7 culture markets and other non-traditional food access points in food
8 deserts in the state.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08281-01-7
