Bill Text: NY S04930 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires chain restaurants to place a salt-shaker-like symbol on menus next to food items that contain more than two thousand three hundred milligrams of sodium.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04930 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04930-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4930--A
            Cal. No. 542

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
          bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
          to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to requiring chain
          restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  1356 to read as follows:
     3    § 1356. Chain restaurants;  sodium  content  of  menu  items.  1.  For
     4  purposes  of  this  section the following terms shall have the following
     5  meanings:
     6    a. "Chain restaurant" shall mean a restaurant which is one of  fifteen
     7  or  more  restaurants that are operated under the same name at different
     8  locations within the state and are operated under the same ownership  or
     9  by franchise agreements.
    10    b.  "Restaurant"  shall mean any commercial eating establishment which
    11  is devoted, wholly or in part, to  the  sale  of  food  for  on-premises
    12  consumption.
    13    2.  Every  chain restaurant operating within this state shall cause to
    14  be placed on its menus a salt-shaker-like symbol next to any  food  item
    15  that  is offered for sale by such restaurant that contains more than two
    16  thousand three hundred milligrams  of  sodium.  Such  menus  shall  also
    17  contain  a  statement that the placement of such salt-shaker-like symbol
    18  next to a menu item indicates that such menu item contains more than two
    19  thousand three hundred milligrams of sodium.
    20    3. Any chain restaurant that violates the provisions of  this  section
    21  shall  be  subject to a civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  dollars for each menu that does not comply with the requirements of this
     2  section.
     3    §  2.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to chain restaurants
     4  located in any city with a population of one  million  or  more  on  and
     5  after  the  date  on  which  such  city, or any department of such city,
     6  adopts or enacts, a rule, regulation, ordinance,  local  law,  order  or
     7  policy  having the same or substantially similar effect as the provision
     8  of this act; provided, however, that any restaurant located in such city
     9  shall be used in calculating the number of  restaurants  located  within
    10  this  state for purposes of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 1356
    11  of the public health law as added by section one of this act.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    13  law.