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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.620
- Referred to agriculture
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Title of bill
An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to orders fixing milk and marketing agreements
Purpose or general idea of bill
To give the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets the ability to establish an emergency price for Class I milk which is greater than the federal order's Class I price. In addition, the Commissioner is allowed to consider setting a price for Class II and Class III milk.
Summary of specific provisions
This legislation amends Section 258-m of the Agriculture and Markets law to grant the Commissioner of Agriculture the authority to make a determination to enact an over-order milk premium. It also allows producers not in a cooperatives to petition the Commissioner to set milk prices and decreases the number of producers that must approve from sixty-six and two-thirds to fifty-one per cent of the producers of milk in the production area.
The legislation also deletes sections (2) and (4) of the existing law. The remainder of the bill is technical renumbering of the sections of law due to the subsequent deletions.
Justification
New York is experiencing one of the worst dairy crises in history and this legislation would update New York's Rogers-Allen law to allow the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Markets to more easily establish an over-order price for milk which is greater than the federal orders price. Currently, the Commissioner cannot invoke this law, unless he or she receives a petition from a producers' bargaining agency (cooperative) representing at least thirty-five percent of the producers milk in New York. This legislation would streamline the Rogers-Allen law to make it easier for the temporary mechanism to alleviate the effects of low milk prices for farmers. By removing the requirement that the petitioning producers be part of a cooperative, we are giving all producers an equal voice in determining an over-order premium, should one need to be assessed.
Prior legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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