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This bill requires expanded annual reporting on New York farmers markets, including data on food deserts, barriers, and funding sources.
Why it matters
Shines a light on food deserts. By requiring detailed reporting on where food deserts exist and their demographic makeup, the bill could help policymakers and advocates better understand which communities lack access to fresh, healthy food, and tailor interventions accordingly.
Identifies barriers to farmers markets in underserved areas. The bill’s focus on successes, failures, and obstacles in establishing farmers markets in food deserts provides critical insight into why some efforts fail, informing smarter strategies and possibly more effective future investments.
Highlights funding opportunities. By mandating a list of available funding sources for expanding farmers markets into food deserts, the bill can help local governments and nonprofits identify potential resources, reducing the financial barriers to improving food access.
Promotes transparency and accountability. Annual, detailed reporting could make it easier for the public and stakeholders to track the state’s efforts to improve food access and support local agriculture, potentially encouraging more responsive and effective policy adjustments.
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Expand Farmers Market Reports
In Assembly Committee · Agriculture · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1354
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to annual reporting requirements for farmers markets
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 263 of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
1. The commissioner shall quinquennially report to the governor and the legislature on or before January first, two thousand seven and on or before January first of each fifth year thereafter on the status of the state farmers' markets program, as provided under this article. Such report shall include:
(a) the number, nature and geographic locations of farmers markets in the state of New York;
[(a)] (b) the number and nature of proposals made to the department for state assistance;
[(b)] (c) the number, nature and geographic location of approved farmers' markets development or improvement projects, and the amounts of each award made thereto;
[(c)] (d) an assessment of the effectiveness of existing farmers' markets to facilitate New York producers to direct market their farm and food products to retail and wholesale consumers; [and]
(e) the number, nature and geographic location of food deserts in the state of New York; such assessment shall provide detailed demographic information, the number and descriptions of the food sources in food deserts, and any other information the commissioner deems appropriate for an assessment of food deserts;
(f) an assessment of the successes, failures and barriers in establishing farmers markets in food deserts and recommendations for overcom-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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ing the failures and barriers in establishing farmers markets in food deserts;
(g) a list of the funding sources available for expanding farmers markets into food deserts; and
[(d)](h) any recommendations for [program] improvement of the farmers' markets program.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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