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A06435 Summary:

A06435 Actions:

A06435 Committee Votes:

Committee:AGRICULTURE   Chair:Lupardo      
DATE:04/18/2023AYE/NAY:23/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means        
Lupardo
Aye
Tague
Aye
Gunther
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Rosenthal
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Barrett
Aye
Fitzpatrick
Aye
Stirpe
Aye
Miller
Aye
Santabarbara
Aye
Friend
Aye
Woerner
Aye
Lemondes
Aye
Jones
Aye
Williams
Aye
Buttenschon
Aye
Kelles
Aye
Septimo
Aye
Zinerman
Aye
Cruz
Aye
Cunningham
Aye
Raga
Aye

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS   Chair:Weinstein      
DATE:05/17/2023AYE/NAY:34/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Weinstein
Aye
Ra
Aye
Glick
Aye
Fitzpatrick
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Colton
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Cook
Aye
Norris
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Weprin
Aye
Walsh
Aye
Ramos
Aye
DeStefano
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Manktelow
Aye
McDonald
Aye
Smullen
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Joyner
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Zebrowski
Aye
Bronson
Aye
Dilan
Aye
Seawright
Aye
Hyndman
Aye
Walker
Excused
Bichotte Hermel
Aye
Simon
Aye
Cruz
Aye

Committee:RULES   Chair:Pretlow      
DATE:05/22/2023AYE/NAY:27/0  Action: Favorable         
Heastie
Excused
Barclay
Aye
Weinstein
Aye
Hawley
Excused
Pretlow
Aye
Giglio
Aye
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Glick
Excused
Norris
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Ra
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Colton
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Reilly
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Lavine
Aye
Lupardo
Aye
Zebrowski
Aye
Thiele
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Dickens
Aye
Davila
Aye
Hyndman
Excused
Rozic
Aye
Bronson
Aye

A06435 Floor Votes:

A06435 Memo:

NEW 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:

 
                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