Bill Text: NY A01843 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires poultry products treated with antibiotics containing arsenic to bear a label so indicating.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to agriculture [A01843 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A01843-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1843 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, STECK, CLARK, HOOPER, CAMARA, ABINANTI, MONTESANO, TENNEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LUPINACCI, PERRY, RIVERA, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agricul- ture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir- ing poultry products treated with antibiotics containing arsenic to bear a label so indicating THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new 2 section 96-z-30 to read as follows: 3 S 96-Z-30. ARSENIC LABELING. NO POULTRY OR POULTRY PRODUCT FOR HUMAN 4 CONSUMPTION WHICH HAS RECEIVED FOOD TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS CONTAINING 5 ARSENIC, SHALL BE SOLD, EXPOSED FOR SALE, EXCHANGED OR TRANSPORTED WITH- 6 IN THE STATE UNLESS THE SAME SHALL BEAR A LABEL INDICATING SUCH PRODUCT 7 WAS "FED WITH ANTIBIOTICS CONTAINING ARSENIC". 8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 10 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 11 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or 12 before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01536-01-5