A06435 Summary:
BILL NO | A06435 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S06326 |
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SPONSOR | Lupardo |
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COSPNSR | Gunther |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd §128, Ag & Mkts L | |
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Authorizes commercial feed for a pet, specialty pet, horse, or camelid to include hemp seed or a substance derived from hemp seed. |
A06435 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A6435 SPONSOR: Lupardo
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to allowing certain commercial feed to include hemp seed   PURPOSE: The purpose of this legislation is to allow for the inclusion of seeds including seed hulls and seed meal from industrial hemp plants in commercial feed solely for pets, specialty pets, horses, and camelids. This legislation would not authorize such inclusion in commercial feed for other livestock.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends subdivision 7 of section 128 of the agriculture and markets law to provide for the inclusion of hemp seed, including seed hulls and seed meal, for use in feed for a pet, specialty pet, horse, or camelid. Section 2: Establishes the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Industrial hemp produces a wide range of useful materials, including building materials, fibers that can be woven into clothing, chaff for animal bedding, and seeds that are available on grocery store shelves in items like granola, snack bars, and cookies. Industrial hemp is feder- ally approved for each of these uses. This bill would authorize the use of hemp seeds for certain types of animal feed in New York. Industrial hemp differs from hemp grown for cannabinoid extraction. CBD and THC occur in the flower of cannabinoid hemp, and this flower is neither produced nor harvested from industrial hemp crop. Only the seeds of the industrial hemp plant, including shell casings and seed meal resulting from processing hemp hearts for human consumption, would be authorized for use in animal feed. Studies indicate that industrial hemp seed provides a high protein, high fiber ingredient for animal consump- tion. Other states, including Montana and Pennsylvania, have already passed similar legislation. Industrial hemp farmers from across the State, along with the National Hemp Association, support this approach as an industry-sustaining meas- ure. Protecting industrial hemp production in New York will encourage greater production and research into the myriad uses of this plant, including as a renewable building material. It will also open the door for small, New York-based animal food processors to establish this marketplace before hemp seeds are authorized for use in commercial feed nationally.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: This is new legislation.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: This legislation could result in increased tax revenue due to increased sales of New York hemp seed product and commercial feed.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
A06435 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6435 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 6, 2023 ___________ 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 allowing certain commercial feed to include hemp seed The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 128 of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as added by chapter 816 of the laws of 1974, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 7. "Commercial feed" means all materials except unmixed whole seeds or 5 physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the 6 meaning of subdivision one of section one hundred thirty-two of this 7 article, which are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed, 8 and includes pet food and specialty pet food. Provided, however, the 9 commissioner by regulation may exempt from this definition, or from 10 specific provisions of this article, commodities such as hay, straw, 11 stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls, and individual chemical compounds or 12 substances when such commodities, compounds or substances are not 13 inter-mixed or mixed with other materials, and are not adulterated with- 14 in the meaning of subdivision one of section one hundred thirty-two of 15 this article. Provided further, however, that commercial feed may 16 include the addition of hemp seed or hemp seed products for use as feed 17 or for mixing in feed for a pet, specialty pet, horse, or camelid. The 18 term "hemp" shall have the same meaning as defined in section five 19 hundred five of this chapter. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10103-02-3