NY State Senate Bill 2017-S8362

Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10301 - Signed by Governor

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Jul 31, 2018	signed chap.158
Jul 19, 2018	delivered to governor
Jun 20, 2018	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.2119 substituted for s8362a
Jun 20, 2018	substituted by a10301b ordered to third reading cal.2119
Jun 05, 2018	print number 8362a
Jun 05, 2018	amend and recommit to rules reported and committed to rules
May 03, 2018	referred to agriculture

Votes

- Jun 20, 2018 - Floor Vote
  A10301
  
  60
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  3
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 20, 2018
      
      aye (60)
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      excused (3)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Croci
      
      Rivera
  Jun 20, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote
  S8362
  
  23
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 20, 2018
      
      aye (23)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Griffo
      
      excused (1)
      
      Rivera
  Jun 5, 2018 - Agriculture Committee Vote
  S8362
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Agriculture Committee Vote: Jun 5, 2018
      
      aye (10)
      
      Brooks
      
      Comrie
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Montgomery

Bill Amendments

Original

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2017-S8362 - Details

Law Section:: Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§321, 322 & 325, Ag & Mkts L

2017-S8362 - Summary

Includes the use of farmer-purchased farmland protection agreements in the commissioner's evaluation of applications for funding for agricultural protection plans.

2017-S8362 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8362

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
acquisition of agricultural preservation restrictions

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance the existing farmland protection
grant program through the addition of affordability provisions that will
increase the likelihood of keeping farmland in active farm use after its
transfer to a new owner.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill amends section 321 of the agriculture and markets law, as
added by chapter 797 of the laws of 1992, to include references to
protecting and investing in the people associated with our agricultural
land base and would recognize the threat posed by non-agricultural

interest in protected farmland.

Section 322 of the agriculture and markets law would be amended to
define "affordability provisions" as a preemptive purchase right or
other provisions included in an agricultural conservation easement or in
an addendum thereto, the purpose of which is to ensure that protected
farmland is affordable to qualified farmers.

Section 322 of the agriculture and markets law would be amended to
define "preemptive purchase right" as the preferential right - estab-
lished in an agricultural conservation easement or in an addendum there-
to - of the easement holder, or its assignee, to purchase protected
farmland at its agricultural use value in the event that the landowner
intends to sell to an unqualified party. The purpose of the preemptive
purchase right is to promote the continued presence of owner-operated
farms and ensure the affordability of protected farmland to qualified
farmers.

Section 322 of the agriculture and markets law would be amended to
define "agricultural use value" as the ag-restricted fair market value
of the property based on its productive commercial agricultural use
value or current agricultural use value, rather than its "highest and
best" potential use value for residential or other non-agricultural
purposes.

Section 322 of the agriculture and markets law would be amended to
define "qualified farmer" as a person who will maintain commercial agri-
cultural use of protected farmland and, in the last two years, has
earned at least one-half of his or her annual gross income from the
"business of farming," as defined by the U.S. Department of the Treas-
ury, or who meets equivalent qualifications as set forth in the agricul-
tural conservation easement.

Subdivision 1 of section 325 of the agriculture and markets law would be
amended to make affordability provisions, such as a preemptive purchase
right, eligible costs for state assistance payments for implementation
of approved agricultural and farmland protection plans.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As the average age of farmers in New York is nearing 60 the state
continues to lose farmland every day to non-agricultural uses; there-
fore, it is important that we find new tools to strengthen farmland
protection efforts across the state. While the Department of Agriculture
and Markets Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program (Farmland
Protection Program) has made great progress in protecting New York farm-
land-spending over $145 million to protect more than 61,000 acres of
viable agricultural land on over 240 farms, there is more to be done
given the pressures toward non-agricultural use of lands. The afforda-
bility provisions of this bill will help improve the chances of farmer-
to-farmer property transactions.  New York is approaching a crisis of
farmland transition that is both an opportunity to keep transitioning
farms in the hands of farmers, and a serious risk of losing them forever
to nonagricultural uses.

New York farmers who are age 65 and older own or manage nearly a third
of the more than seven million acres of farmland in our state, and many
of them do not have an identified successor to take over the farm. As
these farmers retire, roughly two million acres of farmland in New York
are, or will soon be, transitioning to new ownership.  Without new
protections in place to promote transfer of farmland to another working
farmer, new ownership is not guaranteed to pass to another farmer. While
traditional conservation easements restrict development rights, afforda-
bility provisions further restrict the value of the farm to its agricul-
tural use value-an appraised value that reflects what a working farmer
would be able to afford. By making affordability provisions eligible
costs for state assistance payments in the Farmland Protection Program,
farmer-to-farmer land transfers will increase and more farms will remain
in the hands of working farmers.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
90 days after enactment

2017-S8362 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8362
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets  law,  in  relation  to  the
   acquisition of agricultural preservation restrictions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Section 321 of the agriculture and markets law,  as  added
 by chapter 797 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   § 321. Statement  of  legislative  findings  and  intent. It is hereby
 found and declared  that  agricultural  lands  are  irreplaceable  state
 assets.  In  an  effort to maintain the economic viability, and environ-
 mental and landscape preservation values  associated  with  agriculture,
 the state must explore ways to sustain the state's valuable farm economy
 and  TO  PROTECT  AND  INVEST IN THE PEOPLE AND the land base associated
 with it. External pressures on farm stability such as population  growth
 in  non-metropolitan  areas  and  public infrastructure development, AND
 NON-AGRICULTURAL INTEREST IN  PROTECTED  FARMLAND,  pose  a  significant
 threat to farm operations, yet are the pressures over which farmers have
 the  least control. Local initiatives in agricultural protection policy,
 facilitated by the agricultural districts program established in article
 twenty-five-AA of this chapter, have proved effective as a basic step in
 addressing these pressures.  In an effort to encourage further  develop-
 ment  of agricultural and farmland protection programs, and to recognize
 both the crucial role that local government plays  in  developing  these
 strategies,  plus  the state constitutional directive to the legislature
 to provide for the protection of agricultural  lands,  it  is  therefore
 declared  the policy of the state to promote local initiatives for agri-
 cultural and farmland protection.
   § 2. Section 322 of the agriculture and  markets  law  is  amended  by
 adding four new subdivisions 6, 7, 8, and 9 to read as follows:
   6.  "AFFORDABILITY  PROVISION"  MEANS  A  PREEMPTIVE PURCHASE RIGHT OR
 OTHER PROVISIONS INCLUDED IN AN AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT OR IN
 AN ADDENDUM THERETO, THE PURPOSE OF WHICH IS TO  ENSURE  THAT  PROTECTED
 FARMLAND IS AFFORDABLE TO QUALIFIED FARMERS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13903-06-8

 S. 8362                             2
 
   7.  "PREEMPTIVE  PURCHASE  RIGHT" MEANS THE PREFERENTIAL RIGHT, ESTAB-
 LISHED IN AN AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT OR IN AN ADDENDUM THERE-
 TO, OF THE EASEMENT HOLDER, OR ITS ASSIGNEE, TO PURCHASE PROTECTED FARM-
 LAND AT ITS AGRICULTURAL USE VALUE  IN  THE  EVENT  THAT  THE  LANDOWNER
 INTENDS  TO  SELL TO AN UNQUALIFIED PARTY. THE PURPOSE OF THE PREEMPTIVE
 PURCHASE RIGHT IS TO PROMOTE THE CONTINUED  PRESENCE  OF  OWNER-OPERATED
 FARMS  AND  ENSURE  THE AFFORDABILITY OF PROTECTED FARMLAND TO QUALIFIED
 FARMERS.
   8. "AGRICULTURAL USE VALUE" MEANS THE AS-RESTRICTED FAIR MARKET  VALUE
 OF  THE  PROPERTY  BASED  ON  THE PRODUCTIVE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL USE
 VALUE OR CURRENT AGRICULTURAL USE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY, RATHER THAN THE
 "HIGHEST AND BEST" POTENTIAL USE VALUE FOR  RESIDENTIAL  OR  OTHER  NON-
 AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.
   9.  "QUALIFIED  FARMER" IS A PERSON WHO WILL MAINTAIN COMMERCIAL AGRI-
 CULTURAL USE OF PROTECTED FARMLAND AND,  IN  THE  LAST  TWO  YEARS,  HAS
 EARNED  AT  LEAST  ONE-HALF  OF  HIS OR HER ANNUAL GROSS INCOME FROM THE
 "BUSINESS OF FARMING," AS DEFINED BY THE U.S.  DEPARTMENT OF THE  TREAS-
 URY, OR WHO MEETS EQUIVALENT QUALIFICATIONS AS SET FORTH IN THE AGRICUL-
 TURAL CONSERVATION EASEMENT.
   §  3. Subdivision 1 of section 325 of the agriculture and markets law,
 as amended by chapter 150 of the laws of 2013, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  Subject  to  the availability of funds, a program is hereby estab-
 lished to finance through state assistance payments the state  share  of
 the  costs  of  locally-led  agricultural and farmland protection activ-
 ities. State assistance  payments  for  planning  activities  shall  not
 exceed  fifty  thousand dollars to each county agricultural and farmland
 protection board or one hundred thousand  dollars  to  two  such  boards
 applying  jointly,  and  shall  not  exceed fifty percent of the cost of
 preparing an agricultural and farmland protection plan. State assistance
 payments for planning activities shall not exceed  twenty-five  thousand
 dollars  to  each  municipality  other  than  a county or fifty thousand
 dollars to two such  municipalities  applying  jointly,  and  shall  not
 exceed seventy-five percent of the cost of preparing an agricultural and
 farmland  protection  plan.  A  county  which  has  an approved farmland
 protection plan may after one hundred twenty months  from  the  date  of
 such  approval by the commissioner apply for additional state assistance
 payments for planning  activities  related  to  the  updating  of  their
 current  plan  or  development  of  a new farmland protection plan. Such
 additional state assistance payments shall  not  exceed  fifty  thousand
 dollars to each county agricultural and farmland protection board or one
 hundred  thousand dollars to two such boards applying jointly, and shall
 not exceed fifty percent of the cost of preparing  an  agricultural  and
 farmland  protection  plan. State assistance payments for implementation
 of approved agricultural and farmland protection plans may  fund  up  to
 seventy-five  percent  of  the  cost  of implementing the county plan or
 portion of the plan for which state assistance payments  are  requested.
 State assistance payments to such counties shall not exceed seventy-five
 percent  of  the  cost  of implementing the local plan or portion of the
 plan for which state assistance has been requested. Such  maximum  shall
 be increased by a percentage equal to the percentage of the total eligi-
 ble  costs for such specified projects that are contributed by the owner
 of the  agricultural  land  for  which  the  project  is  being  funded,
 provided,  however,  that  in  no  event  shall  the total of such state
 assistance payments exceed eighty-seven and  one-half  percent  of  such
 eligible costs for any specified project. AFFORDABILITY PROVISIONS, SUCH

 S. 8362                             3
 
 AS  A  PREEMPTIVE PURCHASE RIGHT, SHALL BE CONSIDERED ELIGIBLE COSTS FOR
 STATE ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION  OF  APPROVED  AGRICULTURAL
 AND FARMLAND PROTECTION PLANS.
   §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided  however  that  effective  immediately,  the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:: Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§321, 322 & 325, Ag & Mkts L

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the use of farmer-purchased farmland protection agreements in the commissioner's evaluation of applications for funding for agricultural protection plans.

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8362A

SPONSOR: RITCHIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
acquisition of agricultural preservation restrictions

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to enhance the existing farmland protection
grant program through the authorization of provisions that will increase
the likelihood of keeping farmland in active farm use by a farmer after
its sale to a new owner.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 321 of the agriculture and markets law, legis-
lative intent, to include references to protecting farm operations and
the lack of access to affordable farmland.

Section 2 amends section 322 of the agriculture and markets law to add
language to subdivision one clarifying that agricultural and farmland
protection includes farmland protection conservation easements and
purchase of development rights.

Section 3 adds new subdivision 6 to Section 322 of the agriculture and
markets law, to define "farmer-purchaser farmland protection agreement"
which authorizes provisions such as preemptive purchase rights in a
farmland conservation easement providing the easement holder the right
to step in and purchase the farmland at its agricultural use value if
the seller attempted to sell it to a purchaser who cannot demonstrate,
in a manner acceptable to the Department of Agriculture and Markets,
that they are a farmer qualified to keep the land in agricultural
production. The purpose of such an agreement is to ensure that protected
farmland is affordable to qualified farmers. Section 3 of this act also
adds new subdivision 7 to section 322, to define "agricultural use
value" as fair market value of the property based on its productive
commercial agricultural use value rather than its highest and best
potential use value for residential or other non-agricultural purposes.

Section 4 amends subdivision 2 of section 325 of the agriculture and
markets law to make farmer-purchaser farmland protection agreements
eligible for state assistance payments.

Section 5 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

As the average age of farmers in New York is nearing 60 the state
continues to lose farmland every day to non-agricultural uses; there-
fore, it is important that we find new tools to strengthen farmland
protection efforts across the state. While the Department of Agriculture
and Markets Farmland Protection Implementation Grant program (Farmland
Protection Program) has made great progress in protecting New York farm-
land-spending over $145 million to protect more than 61,000 acres of
viable agricultural land on over 240 farms, there is more to be done
given the pressures toward non-agricultural use of lands. The provisions

of this bill will help improve the chances of farmer-to-farmer property
transactions.

New York is approaching a crisis of farmland transition that is both an
opportunity to keep transitioning farms in the hands of farmers, and a
serious risk of losing them forever to nonagricultural uses.  New York
farmers who are age 65 and older own or manage nearly a third of the
more than seven million acres of farmland in our state, and many of them
do not have an identified successor to take over the farm. As these
farmers retire, roughly two million acres of farmland in New York are,
or will soon be, transitioning to new ownership.

Without new protections in place to promote sales of farmland to another
working farmer, new ownership of protected farmland is not guaranteed to
pass to another farmer. While traditional conservation easements
restrict development rights, this legislation would further restrict the
value of the farm to its agricultural use value, an appraised value that
reflects what a working farm is worth, making it even more affordable
for working farmers to buy. By making farmer-purchaser agreements eligi-
ble for state assistance payments in the Farmland Protection Program,
more retiring farmers who wish to preserve their farms may be willing to
negotiate easements with these provisions and more farms will remain in
the hands of working farmers.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Undetermined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8362--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 3, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. RITCHIE, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Agriculture  --
   reported  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
   on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture and markets law, in relation to the
   acquisition of agricultural preservation restrictions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.   Section 321 of the agriculture and markets law, as added
 by chapter 797 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   § 321. Statement of legislative findings  and  intent.  It  is  hereby
 found  and  declared  that  agricultural  lands  are irreplaceable state
 assets. In an effort to maintain the economic  viability,  and  environ-
 mental  and  landscape  preservation values associated with agriculture,
 the state must explore ways to sustain the state's valuable farm economy
 and TO PROTECT FARM OPERATIONS AND the land  base  associated  with  it.
 External  pressures  on farm stability such as population growth in non-
 metropolitan areas, LACK OF ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE  FARMLAND,  and  public
 infrastructure development pose a significant threat to farm operations,
 yet  are  the pressures over which farmers have the least control. Local
 initiatives in agricultural protection policy, facilitated by the  agri-
 cultural districts program established in article twenty-five-AA of this
 chapter, have proved effective as a basic step in addressing these pres-
 sures.    In  an effort to encourage further development of agricultural
 and farmland protection programs, and to recognize both the crucial role
 that local government plays in developing  these  strategies,  plus  the
 state  constitutional  directive  to  the legislature to provide for the
 protection of agricultural lands, it is therefore declared the policy of
 the state to promote local initiatives  for  agricultural  and  farmland
 protection.
   §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 322 of the agriculture and markets law,
 as added by chapter 797 of the laws of  1992,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13903-12-8

 S. 8362--A                          2
 
   1.  "Agricultural  and  farmland  protection"  means the preservation,
 conservation, management or improvement  of  lands  which  are  part  of
 viable  farming operations, for the purpose of encouraging such lands to
 remain in agricultural production. SUCH PRESERVATION EFFORTS INCLUDE THE
 USE OF FARMLAND PROTECTION CONSERVATION EASEMENTS AND PURCHASE OF DEVEL-
 OPMENT RIGHTS.
   §  3.  Section  322  of  the agriculture and markets law is amended by
 adding two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
   6. "FARMER-PURCHASER FARMLAND PROTECTION AGREEMENT"  MEANS  PREEMPTIVE
 PURCHASE  RIGHTS  OR  OTHER  PROVISIONS  THAT ARE PART OF OR LINKED TO A
 FARMLAND PROTECTION CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROVIDING THE EASEMENT  HOLDER
 THE  PREFERENTIAL  RIGHT  TO PURCHASE PROTECTED FARMLAND AT ITS AGRICUL-
 TURAL USE VALUE IN THE EVENT THE LANDOWNER INTENDS TO SELL SUCH FARMLAND
 TO A PURCHASER WHO DOES NOT INTEND TO MAINTAIN THE  LAND  IN  COMMERCIAL
 AGRICULTURAL  PRODUCTION  AND  WHO  DOES  NOT HAVE THE REQUISITE FARMING
 EXPERIENCE AND FARMING INCOME TO DEMONSTRATE, IN A MANNER ACCEPTABLE  TO
 THE  DEPARTMENT,  A  GOOD  FAITH PLAN TO MAINTAIN THE LAND IN COMMERCIAL
 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.  THE PURPOSE OF SUCH PROVISIONS  IS  TO  ENSURE
 THAT  FARMER-PURCHASERS WHO WOULD MAINTAIN PROTECTED FARMLAND IN COMMER-
 CIAL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION CAN AFFORD SUCH FARMLAND THAT MIGHT  OTHER-
 WISE BE SOLD AT A HIGHER PRICE TO OTHER PURCHASERS.
   7.  "AGRICULTURAL USE VALUE" MEANS THE FAIR MARKET VALUE OF A PROPERTY
 THAT IS RESTRICTED BY AN EASEMENT TO ITS PRODUCTIVE COMMERCIAL  AGRICUL-
 TURAL  USE VALUE RATHER THAN THE HIGHEST AND/OR BEST POTENTIAL USE VALUE
 FOR RESIDENTIAL OR OTHER NON-AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.
   § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 325 of the agriculture and  markets  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
   (G)  IN  EVALUATING  APPLICATIONS FOR FUNDING, PROJECTS FOR PROTECTING
 AGRICULTURAL LAND  THAT  INCLUDE  FARMER-PURCHASER  FARMLAND  PROTECTION
 AGREEMENTS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR STATE ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided  however  that  effective  immediately,  the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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Senate Bill S8362

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10301 - Signed by Governor

Jun 20, 2018 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Jun 20, 2018

Jun 20, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote

Rules Committee Vote: Jun 20, 2018

Jun 5, 2018 - Agriculture Committee Vote

Agriculture Committee Vote: Jun 5, 2018

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S8362 - Details

2017-S8362 - Summary

2017-S8362 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8362 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A10301 - Signed by Governor

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S8362 - Details

2017-S8362 - Summary

2017-S8362 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8362 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S8362A (ACTIVE) - Details

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