Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 24, 2016 | held for consideration in agriculture |
Jan 06, 2016 | referred to agriculture |
Jan 22, 2015 | referred to agriculture |
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Didi Barrett
Peter Lopez
Ellen C. Jaffee
Kenneth Blankenbush
A3302 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S6648
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Agriculture
- Law Section:
- State Finance Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §165, St Fin L; add §5-a, Ag & Mkts L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010: A10584, S6974
2011-2012: A8038, A9031, S2468
2013-2014: A5051, S978
2017-2018: A2185, S3918
A3302 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Enacts the "buy from the backyard act"; requires the office of general services and other state agencies to buy 20% of all their food products from producers and/or processors in New York state; provides that the commissioner of agriculture and markets shall determine the New York food products that are available during the various times during the year; directs such commissioner to report to the governor and the legislature on the implementation of such provisions.
A3302 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3302 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BARRETT, LOPEZ, JAFFEE, BLANKEN- BUSH, ABINANTI, STIRPE, RUSSELL, PAULIN, SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the state finance law and the agriculture and markets law, in relation to enacting the "buy from the backyard act" THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "buy from the backyard act". S 2. The opening paragraph of paragraph a, paragraphs b, c, subpara- graph (i) of paragraph f and paragraph h of subdivision 4 of section 165 of the state finance law, the opening paragraph of paragraph a, subpara- graph (i) of paragraph f and paragraph h as amended by chapter 533 of the laws of 2013, and paragraphs b and c as amended by chapter 137 of the laws of 2008, are amended to read as follows: Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, when letting contracts for the purchase of food products on behalf of facilities and institutions of the state, solicitation specifications of the office of general services and any other agency, department, office, board or commission [may] SHALL require provisions that mandate that [all or some], DURING EACH STATE FISCAL YEAR, NOT LESS THAN TWENTY PERCENT of the required food products are grown, produced or harvested in New York state, or that any processing of such food products take place in facil- ities located within New York state. b. The commissioner of agriculture and markets shall determine AND CERTIFY, using uniform criteria, those food products for which the requirements of this subdivision are deemed MOST beneficial and shall promulgate and forward to the appropriate agencies a list of such food products, and shall in addition ascertain those periods of time each year that those food products are available in sufficient quantities for competitive purchasing and shall forward such information to purchasing EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01325-01-5