STATE OF NEW YORK
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6435
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 6, 2023
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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
