Bill Text: NY A01010 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Makes it illegal to knowingly alter, mutilate, destroy, obliterate, obstruct or remove by means of a price sticker or otherwise the whole or any part of the label, including where applicable the expiration date displayed thereon, of any over-the-counter drug or cosmetic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-15 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [A01010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01010-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1010--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Consumer Affairs and Protection -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Consumer Protection in accordance with Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          reported   and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  the  sale  of
          over-the-counter drugs and cosmetic products

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

     1    Section 1. The article heading of article 38-A of the general business
     2  law, as added by chapter 697 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read  as
     3  follows:
     4                               SALE OF OUTDATED
     5               AND LABEL OBSTRUCTED OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUGS AND
     6                              COSMETIC PRODUCTS
     7    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section 820 of the general business law, as
     8  added by chapter 697 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows:
     9    2. to knowingly alter,  mutilate,  destroy,  obliterate,  obstruct  or
    10  remove by means of a price sticker or otherwise the whole or any part of
    11  [the  expiration  date displayed on] the label [or packaging], including
    12  where applicable the expiration date displayed thereon, of any over-the-
    13  counter drug or cosmetic. For purposes of  this  subdivision,  the  term
    14  "label"  shall mean the label required by the statutes applicable to and
    15  regulations issued by the federal food and drug administration.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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