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- Print number 7280a
- Amend (t) and recommit to agriculture
- Referred to agriculture
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Relates to misuse of supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits; repealer
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor William Magee
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Title of bill
An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the misuse of federal food stamps; to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to agricultural districts law improvements; to repeal article 12 of the agriculture and markets law, relating to the manufacture and sale of adulterated turpentine and linseed oil; to repeal section 149 of the agriculture and markets law, relating to the interstate pest control compact; and to repeal section 214-k of the agriculture and markets law, relating to the sale and labeling of charcoal
Purpose of the bill
This bill would modify the Agriculture and Markets Law (AML) by repealing outdated and unnecessary provisions and amending certain provisions to clarify and enhance the agricultural assessment provisions.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill would repeal AML article 12, which contains obsolete restrictions on the production and distribution of adulterated turpentine and adulterated linseed oil.
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Section 2 of the bill would repeal AML § 149, which adopts the now dissolved Interstate Pest Control Compact.
Section 3 of the bill would repeal AML § 214-k, which imposes labeling requirements on charcoal that are duplicative of federal regulations.
Section 4 of the bill would amend AML § 45-b to replace out-of-date references to the federal food stamp program with references to the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Section 5 of the bill would amend paragraph m of subdivision 4 of AML § 301 (qualification of "silvopasturing" for agricultural assessment) to add a requirement that "land used in silvopasturing" be part of a single operation that contains land qualified for an agricultural assessment.
Under AML § 301(4), a number of stand-alone activities are eligible for an agricultural assessment, including silvopasturing (AML § 301(4)(m), added in 2014). Unlike most of the provisions for qualifying for an agricultural assessment, however, the law did not require any minimum gross sales of livestock to be produced on such land or require that the silvopasture land be used in conjunction with other land that qualifies for an agricultural assessment. Without such requirements, any landowner who establishes silvopasture land can qualify for an agricultural assessment; whether or not they have a commercial farm that sells products. The proposed amendment appropriately requires that silvopasturing land be part of a single operation that contains land qualified for an agricultural assessment.
Two year prior use requirement to qualify for agricultural assessment
The definition of "land used in agricultural production" AML § 301(4) was previously amended to allow start-up farms to receive an agricultural assessment within their first or second year of production as long as they meet the income requirement contained in the law. Only start-up farms enjoy this benefit, however. Existing farms that want to buy fallow land to add to their fauns cannot receive an agricultural assessment until the land is used for production for two years; which discourages land being brought into production. Removing the two year prior use requirement will make marginal land, or land not in production for various reasons, more attractive because farmers will not have to wait two years for the land to qualify for an agricultural assessment. This reduces the cost of oftentimes significant investments needed to make the land productive again. Existing farms should not have to put land into production and wait until its third year in production for the land to be eligible for an agricultural assessment.
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Effective date
The bill would take effect immediately and apply to assessment rolls prepared on the basis of taxable status dates occurring on or after such effective date.
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