Expands the definitions of surplus agricultural products and processed products for the purposes of the Nourish New York program to include certain milk and other non-alcoholic farm produced beverages.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8690
IN SENATE
February 29, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 the
definitions of surplus agricultural products and processed products
for the purposes of the Nourish New York program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 451 of the agriculture and
2 markets law, subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 3 as added by
3 chapter 101 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
4 2. "Surplus agricultural products" means consumable or edible agricul-
5 tural products grown, produced or harvested in New York, including proc-
6 essed products as defined pursuant to subdivision three of this section,
7 but shall not include beverages containing alcohol. "Surplus agricul-
8 tural products" shall also include New York grown, produced or harvested
9 whole milk, two percent fat milk, and other farm produced beverages,
10 with the exception of beverages containing alcohol.
11 3. "Processed products" means any agricultural commodity that is
12 grown, produced or harvested in New York state and further processed by
13 butchering, freezing, canning, pasteurizing, boiling, altering its state
14 and/or blending with other ingredients, so long as the final product
15 contains at least fifty-one percent by weight or volume agricultural
16 products that are grown, produced or harvested in New York state,
17 regardless of where processed.
18 § 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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