{"id":154352,"date":"2023-01-04T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-york-governor-signs-bill-encouraging-businesses-to-use-hemp-for-construction-packaging-and-other-purposes"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T16:23:09","slug":"new-york-governor-signs-bill-encouraging-businesses-to-use-hemp-for-construction-packaging-and-other-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-york-governor-signs-bill-encouraging-businesses-to-use-hemp-for-construction-packaging-and-other-purposes","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor Signs Bill Encouraging Businesses To Use Hemp For Construction, Packaging And Other Purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-governor-signs-bill-encouraging-businesses-to-use-hemp-for-construction-packaging-and-other-purposes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> Year 2022<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As New York prepares for the imminent launch of legal adult-use marijuana sales, the governor has signed a bill aimed at expanding the state\u2019s hemp market by promoting collaborative partnerships to identify more opportunities to utilize the crop and its derivatives for packaging, construction and other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Bill sponsor Sen. Michelle Hinchey (D) announced on Tuesday that Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) approved her legislation late last month. It would amend a section of New York\u2019s agriculture law that deals with hemp economic development, mandating that the agriculture commissioner consult with additional partners on ways to incorporate hemp products into business operations throughout the state.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, it calls for the commissioner to \u201cconsult and cooperate with\u201d the New York State Hemp Workgroup and industry stakeholders \u201cthat currently use, or may potentially use, industrial hemp in their products, to develop and promote the use of hemp by businesses for purposes such as packaging, construction, and other uses,\u201d according to a summary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>face_with_colon_three Year 2022 As New York prepares for the imminent launch of legal adult-use marijuana sales, the governor has signed a bill aimed at expanding the state\u2019s hemp market by promoting collaborative partnerships to identify more opportunities to utilize the crop and its derivatives for packaging, construction and other purposes. Bill sponsor Sen. Michelle Hinchey [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,1506,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-food","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}