What's happening
This bill requires NYSERDA to pay grant awards to farm operations within 90 days of notification of funding.
Why it matters
Faster grant payments could help farm operations manage cash flow more effectively. , allowing them to invest in equipment, energy efficiency, or other improvements without long delays waiting for state funds.
This amendment holds NYSERDA more accountable and responsive. , reducing bureaucratic lag and making grant programs more attractive and reliable for farmers who may have tight seasonal timelines.
By specifying a 90-day payment window, the bill increases transparency and predictability. , ensuring that farm operations can make concrete plans based on awarded grants, which could improve participation in state-funded sustainability or innovation programs.
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Faster Farm Grant Payments
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2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Pay Farm Grants Faster
In Assembly Committee · Energy · Sponsor William Magee
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1905
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to payments of grants to farm operations by NYSERDA
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1854 of the public authorities law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
14. (a) To apply for and to administer federal research and development grants and other monies for the benefit of consumers.
(b) To make payments to farm operations, as defined by subdivision eleven of section three hundred one of the agriculture and markets law, for grants administered by the authority. Payment of such grants shall be made no later than ninety days after notification of such funding award.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07439-01-7
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to payments of grants to farm operations by NYSERDA
Purpose
To ensure that the payment of grants by NYSERDA to farm operations is made no later than 90 days after the notification of such funding award.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends subdivision 14 of section 1854 of the Public Authorities Law to state that the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) can make payments of grants to farm operations as defined in the Agriculture and Markets Law. This section also requires that the payment of such grants administered by NYSERDA to farm operations shall be made no later than 90 days after the notification of such funding award. Section 2 provides the effective date.
Justification
This bill ensures that farm operations, as defined in subdivision 11 of section 301 of the Agriculture and Markets Law, are able to receive grants from NYSERDA and that the payment of such grants is made no later than 90 days after the notification of such funding award. Currently, farm operations receive grants from NYSERDA but the payment of such grants has been severely delayed. This delay causes a shortfall in the budget of many farms. Hardworking farmers continue to wait for many months, even years, for the payment of grants they have been promised by NYSERDA. Such long delays are unacceptable and unbearable for a business to endure as they wait for the payment of grants which have been promised to them. Therefore, this legislation seeks to remedy the problem by requiring NYSERDA to make the payment of such grants no later than 90 days after the notification of such funding award.
Legislative history
2015-2016:S.2464/A.2404 2013-2014:S.6224/A.8977
Fiscal implications
Minimal.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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