Enacts the "New York farmer recruitment and retention act of 2018"; directs the board of regents and the education department to investigate and study undergraduate agricultural programs with the goal of identifying programs which encourage entry into agricultural production; establishes agriculture producer scholarships for students who agree to be agriculture producers in the state for a certain period of time after graduation; establishes the producer's loan forgiveness program; directs the board of regents and the education department to establish and implement an outreach program to encourage elementary and secondary school students to enter the agricultural field; directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to report to the governor and the legislature on reducing taxation on land used in agricultural production; appropriates funds therefor.
Sponsored bills
Relates to the authorization of school districts to enter into lease purchase agreements for the acquisition of security solutions.
Prohibits members of the legislature from obtaining funding through state grants or member items and subsequently providing such funding to any business entities or not-for-profit entities in which such officials, members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold official or legal positions.
Provides that in certain instances the school district budget will be approved if the majority of the votes cast are in the affirmative and if the budget, without the separate proposition or propositions, does not exceed the tax levy limit.
Relates to the election of regents; requires a two-thirds supermajority vote of the legislature to elect each regent; requires each of the 4 legislative leaders to appoint 1 regent at large; requires all regents candidates to be announced at least 21 days prior to vote and requires legislative approval for any board of regents rules or regulations that impose unfunded mandates on school districts.
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Requires the governing body of each school district which eliminates teaching positions and costs to decrease a proportional amount in administrative costs.
Relates to the commissioner of education granting schools variances for alternative assessments.
Relates to creating the commission on exceptional standards for New York state.
Creates the New York state independent budget office with a director to be appointed, upon the recommendations of an independent budget office advisory committee, by the speaker of the assembly and the temporary president of the senate; such office shall provide objective, non-partisan and timely analyses of state revenue, expenditures and management practices to members of the legislature for any legislation with fiscal impact or at the request of a leader or a committee.