New York Senate Bill S08066 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8066  IN SENATE January 5, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to funding for the agrivoltaics research program; to amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the agriculture and markets law relating to estab- lishing the agrivoltaics research program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 151-j of the agriculture and markets law, as added 2 by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the agriculture and markets 3 law relating to establishing the agrivoltaics research program, as 4 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, is amended by 5 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 6 4. Such program shall be funded by appropriations made available in 7 chapter fifty-three of the laws of two thousand twenty-three to the New 8 York state college of agriculture and life sciences at Cornell universi- 9 ty for the purpose of studying the ecological impacts of agrivoltaics, 10 and any future appropriation made thereafter for the same purpose. 11 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the agricul- 12 ture and markets law relating to establishing the agrivoltaics research 13 program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, 14 is amended to read as follows: 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 16 deemed repealed on December 31, 2030. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, 18 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the 19 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the agriculture 20 and markets law relating to establishing the agrivoltaics research 21 program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7081 and A. 4911, 22 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08775-03-4