S2677-2013 Actions

• Mar 12, 2013: referred to agriculture
• Mar 12, 2013: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Mar 12, 2013: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 7, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 6, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 5, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.151
• Jan 23, 2013: REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE

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BILL NUMBER:S2677

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the agriculture and markets law and the education law, in
relation to farm conservation practices

PURPOSE: To clarify that the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Markets
and the NYS Soil & Water Conservation Committee shall be the
authorities that establish the need for technical expertise on farm
environmental and conservation best management practices.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 16 of the Agriculture
and Markets Law
is amended to give authority to the Commissioner of Agriculture &
Markets, along with the NYS Soil & Water Conservation Committee to
review farm conservation practices and determine the technical
expertise needed to implement such practices.

JUSTIFICATION: Across the state, farms are working on
implementing
environmental best management practices. These efforts protect our
natural resources and increase farm environmental sustainability. The
experts that assist farmers in implementing these programs are local
soil and water districts. The state committee that oversees the
districts has a longstanding history of working with farms and has a
strong practical knowledge of the technical resources needed to
implement specific projects. Rather than have engineers that are
unfamiliar with farm-specific projects determine necessary resources,
this bill more appropriately assigns the responsibility for such
determination.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2012: S.850/A.2164 Advanced to Third Reading
2011: S.859/A.2164 Passed Senate
2009,2010: S.2470/A.5809 Referred to Agriculture
2007,2008: S.8004/A.10973 Passed Senate

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: A cost savings would be
actualized with technical
resources being more efficiently used and, thereby, more farm
environmental Projects being accomplished with existing state funds.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Effective immediately.

S2677-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         2677
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 23, 2013
 
 Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, O'MARA, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul
 ture
 AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law and the education law,
 in relation to farm conservation practices
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.

Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 45 to read as follows:

 45. DEFINE AND REVIEW ON AN ON-GOING BASIS FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES
 IN  CONJUNCTION  WITH THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE TO
 DETERMINE THE SCOPE  OF  ENGINEERING,  LAND  SURVEYING  OR  ARCHITECTURE
 NECESSARY FOR SUCH PRACTICES.
 

S  2.  Paragraph  b  of subdivision 7 of section 7209 of the education
 law, as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read  as
 follows:

 b.  To  alterations  to any building or structure costing ten thousand
 dollars or less which do not involve changes  affecting  the  structural
 safety  or public safety thereof nor to farm buildings, including barns,
 sheds, poultry houses and other buildings used directly and  solely  for
 agricultural  purposes;  NOR  TO  FARM CONSERVATION PRACTICES, EXCEPT AS
 DETERMINED NECESSARY BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE  AND  MARKETS  AND
 THE STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE; nor to residence build
 ings  of  gross  floor  area of fifteen hundred square feet or less, not
 including garages, carports, porches, cellars,  or  uninhabitable  base
 ments or attics.
 

S  3.  Paragraph  1  of subdivision 5 of section 7307 of the education
 law, as amended by chapter 994 of the laws of 1971, is amended  to  read
 as follows:

 1.  Farm  buildings,  including barns, sheds, poultry houses and other
 buildings used directly and solely for  agricultural  purposes;  NOR  TO
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06905-01-3
 
       S. 2677                             2
 FARM  CONSERVATION  PRACTICES,  EXCEPT  AS  DETERMINED  NECESSARY BY THE
 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS  AND  THE  STATE  SOIL  AND  WATER
 CONSERVATION  COMMITTEE;  nor  to  residence  buildings of gross area of
 fifteen  hundred  square  feet or less, not including garages, carports,
 porches, cellars, or uninhabitable basements or attics; or
 

S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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