Assembly Bill A7369

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation of the Future Agriculture Readiness Marketing Camp

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A7369 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4660
Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets

2017-A7369 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of the department of agriculture and markets to establish the Future Agriculture Readiness Marketing Camp to provide farmers with training in marketing and product development.

2017-A7369 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7369
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 25, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT authorizing the commissioner of the department of agriculture and
   markets to develop the future agriculture readiness marketing camp
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  commissioner  of  agriculture  and markets is hereby
 authorized and directed to develop an agricultural marketing "boot camp"
 program in accordance with the requirements prescribed in this act.
   § 2. (a) The commissioner of agriculture and markets  is  directed  to
 develop  the program in cooperation with an advisory board consisting of
 the presidents of: SUNY Morrisville; SUNY Canton; SUNY Cobleskill;  SUNY
 Oswego,  and the dean of the college of agriculture and life sciences at
 Cornell University.  Though the resources of each institution  shall  be
 utilized, the program shall be coordinated by the Small Farms program of
 Cornell  University.    Two  representatives, one selected by the senate
 majority, and the second by the assembly majority, shall also  serve  on
 the program's advisory board.
   (b) Members of the advisory board described in subdivision (a) of this
 section  shall  not  receive  compensation,  but  shall  be  entitled to
 reimbursement for expenses under any  applicable  state  law,  rule,  or
 regulation.
   § 3. The program shall be no less than one week in length, but no more
 than  two  weeks,  and  shall  be at least as academically rigorous as a
 200-level-class at any of the institutions in subdivision (a) of section
 two of this act. Participants shall have the same access to information,
 faculty, staff, and resources as a matriculated student  would  have  at
 any  of the institutions named in subdivision (a) of section two of this
 act. The program shall consist of one cohort each year, of not more than
 thirty students, but not fewer than five students.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09433-04-7
              

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