Bill Text: NY A06180 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a warning label to be printed on or attached to juice containers commonly known as juice boxes; provides that such label shall include a warning that the straw's packaging included with the juice box is a choking hazard for children and should be disposed of immediately; defines "juice container" as being in either box or pouch form.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A06180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06180-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6180
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TITUS,  RIVERA,  JAFFEE, COOK, CYMBROWITZ --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,  DINOWITZ,  ZEBROWSKI  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to labeling of
          juice containers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-ii to read as follows:
     3    §  399-ii.  Warning  labels  on  juice  containers.  1.  On each juice
     4  container, commonly known as a "juice  box",  sold  or  delivered  by  a
     5  manufacturer  or  distributor  within this state, there shall be printed
     6  thereon or attached thereto a warning label. Such  label  shall  contain
     7  the  following  statement: WARNING: "The straw's packaging included with
     8  this product is a choking hazard for children and should be disposed  of
     9  immediately."
    10    2.  For  purposes  of  this  section  "juice container" shall mean and
    11  include juice containers in either box or pouch  form  which  include  a
    12  straw encasement.
    13    3.  Any  person,  firm,  corporation  or association who violates this
    14  section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than  one  thou-
    15  sand dollars for each such violation.
    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.
                                                                   LBD07722-01-9