New York Assembly Bill A06589 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6589 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to expand- ing agricultural tourism The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 301 of the agriculture and 2 markets law, as amended by chapter 87 of the laws of 2010, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 15. "Agricultural tourism" means activities, including but not limited 5 to the production of maple sap and pure maple products made therefrom, 6 the production and processing of grapes, grains or other crops used to 7 create alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages in an on-farm brewery, 8 winery, cidery, meadery or distillery, the production and processing of 9 fiber such as sheep or alpaca wool, and the production of processed 10 food commodities, including but not limited to ice cream, jams, baked 11 goods and similar items, conducted by a farmer on-farm for the enjoyment 12 and/or education of the public, which primarily promote the sale, 13 marketing, production, harvesting or use of the products of the farm and 14 enhance the public's understanding and awareness of farming and farm 15 life. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 17 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10004-01-5