New York S 7637: Establishes the commission for agricultural education excellence to assist in developing a statewide plan for increasing agricultural literacy and supporting agricultural education

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S07637 Summary:

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Establishes the commission for agricultural education excellence to assist in developing a statewide plan for increasing agricultural literacy and supporting agricultural education; provides for the membership and powers and duties of such commission; requires the commission to file an annual report with the governor and the legislature.

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04/24/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7637

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing the
 commission for agricultural education excellence

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 141 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 141. Commission for agricultural education excellence. 1. There is
 4 hereby established within the department the commission for agricultural
 5 education excellence to assist in developing a statewide plan for
 6 increasing agricultural literacy and supporting agricultural education.
 7 The commissioner shall implement the requirements of the commission
 8 within funds available to the department and in conjunction with the
 9 department of agriculture and markets, and the department of labor as
 10 provided for under this section.
 11 2. (a) The commission shall consist of nineteen members to be
 12 appointed as follows:
 13 (i) the commissioner, or their designee;
 14 (ii) the commissioner of agriculture and markets, or their designee;
 15 (iii) the commissioner of labor, or their designee;
 16 (iv) the dean of the college of agriculture and life sciences of
 17 Cornell university, or their designee;
 18 (v) the executive director of agriculture education and outreach at
 19 Cornell university;
 20 (vi) a member of the New York agriculture in the classroom advisory
 21 committee appointed by the chair;
 22 (vii) the president of New York FFA;
 23 (viii) the director of the Cornell cooperative extension, or their
 24 designee;
 25 (ix) the president of New York State 4-H;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 (x) ten members who shall be jointly appointed by the commissioner,
 2 the commissioner of agriculture and markets, and the commissioner of
 3 labor from lists submitted by the temporary president of the senate and
 4 the speaker of the assembly, in consultation with the minority leader of
 5 the senate and the majority leader and the minority leader of the assem-
 6 bly as follows:
 7 (1) two farmers;
 8 (2) a representative of the agricultural processing and marketing
 9 industries;
 10 (3) two secondary teachers of agriculture, one from a board of cooper-
 11 ative educational services career and technical center and one from a
 12 school district appointed by the president of the New York Association
 13 of Agricultural Educators;
 14 (4) a representative of the state university of New York agricultural
 15 and technical colleges that offer agriculture majors, who has a back-
 16 ground in or knowledge of agricultural education;
 17 (5) a secondary school administrator from a school that conducts an
 18 agricultural education program;
 19 (6) one member from any college or university that offers state-ap-
 20 proved agricultural science teacher preparation programs or a public
 21 community college in this state that provides an articulated agricul-
 22 tural science teacher education course of study; and
 23 (7) two members of the business community with knowledge of agricul-
 24 tural education.
 25 (b) Each member of the commission shall serve for a term of three
 26 years, except that of the in