Assembly Bill A9031

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Enacts the "buy from the backyard act"

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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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2011-A9031 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2468
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:
2009-2010: A10584, S6974
2013-2014: A5051, S978
2015-2016: A3302, S831, S6648
2017-2018: A2185, S3918

2011-A9031 (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.

2011-A9031 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9031

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 17, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- 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. Subdivision 4 of section 165 of the state finance law, as amended
by chapter 137 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  Special  provisions  for  purchase  of  available  New  York  food
products.
  a. 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
agencies.  The commissioner of agriculture and markets shall update such
list  as  often  as  is  deemed  by him or her to be necessary.  FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "COMPETITIVE PURCHASING" OF NEW YORK  FOOD
PRODUCTS  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE  ESTABLISHED  WHEN  THE COST OF SUCH
PRODUCTS ARE NOT MORE THAN TEN PERCENT HIGHER THAN OTHER FOOD PRODUCTS.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07264-01-1
              

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