Bill Text: NY A07655 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7655 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Defines the term "land used in silvopasturing" to mean the intentional combination of trees, forages and livestock managed as a single integrated practice for the collective benefit of each, including the planting of appropriate grasses and legume forages among trees for sound grazing and livestock husbandry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-18 - print number 7655b [A07655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07655-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7655
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 12, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Agriculture
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  expand-
         ing  the  definition  of  crops,  livestock  and livestock products to
         include silvopasturing products
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets
    2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph k to read as follows:
    3    K.  SILVOPASTURED  PRODUCTS,  INCLUDING  PRODUCTS  FROM  A PLANNED AND
    4  MANAGED COMBINATION OF TREES, FORAGES AND  COMMERCIAL  LIVESTOCK  FOR  A
    5  PRODUCTIVE BENEFIT.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10929-01-1