Bill Text: NY A05026 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance, to establish a grant program to provide funding to emergency food providers to purchase prepared meals from New York restaurants and deliver them to families in need.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A05026 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05026-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5026

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  direct-
          ing the commissioner of agriculture and markets to establish a program
          to  provide  funding  to emergency food providers to purchase prepared
          meals from New York restaurants and deliver them to families in need

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 53 to read as follows:
     3    53.  Develop,  in  consultation with the commissioner of the office of
     4  temporary and disability assistance, a  grant  program,  within  funding
     5  made  available  for  such  program, to provide awards to emergency food
     6  providers to purchase prepared meals from eligible New York  restaurants
     7  and  deliver them to families in need. The commissioner shall promulgate
     8  criteria for a restaurant to participate in such  program,  which  shall
     9  include  but  not be limited to, passing all health inspections, compli-
    10  ance with all licensing requirements applicable to such restaurant,  and
    11  creation  of meals aligning with current MyPlate standards issued by the
    12  United States department of agriculture. Such program shall also encour-
    13  age participating restaurants to  utilize  New  York  ingredients  where
    14  possible.    The commissioner shall promulgate any rules and regulations
    15  necessary for the implementation of this subdivision.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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