Bill Text: NY A05986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of agriculture and markets to maintain a publicly available database of the results of its graded inspections on its website; requires the department to provide information as to where a customer may file a consumer report; requires the department to facilitate and coordinate the planning and implementation of an awareness and educational program to inform the general public on the standards retail food stores shall meet and how consumers may report retail food stores with poor sanitary conditions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - substituted by s1195 [A05986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05986-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5986

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN  ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to requir-
          ing the department of agriculture and markets to maintain  a  publicly
          available  database  of  the  results of its graded inspections on its
          website

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 500 of the agriculture and markets law is amended
     2  by adding three new subdivisions 6, 7 and 8 to read as follows:
     3    6. The department shall maintain a publicly available database of  the
     4  results  of  its  graded  inspections that shall include the retail food
     5  store's name, address, date of inspection,  grade  and  a  list  of  any
     6  violations  cited within ninety days of a graded inspection. The depart-
     7  ment shall update the database every ninety days. The  department  shall
     8  make  the inspection database available on their website, in a conspicu-
     9  ous location, including on any navigation or drop-down menu.
    10    7. The department shall provide on their  website  information  as  to
    11  where  a customer may file a consumer report, which shall be placed in a
    12  conspicuous location, including on any navigation or drop-down menu.  If
    13  a  consumer  report is filed with the department regarding a retail food
    14  store, the graded inspection report provided to such retail  food  store
    15  shall  note  that  the  store  was  reported by a consumer. The consumer
    16  report and any other identifiable information of the consumer shall  not
    17  be included within the inspection report.
    18    8.  The  department  shall  facilitate and coordinate the planning and
    19  implementation of an awareness and educational  program  to  inform  the
    20  general  public  on  the standards retail food stores shall meet and how
    21  consumers may report retail food stores with poor  sanitary  conditions.
    22  Such  program shall include grading inspection posting requirements, the
    23  differences of sanitation between the  inspection  grades,  and  how  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02587-01-3
        A. 5986                             2

     1  report a retail food store to the department. Such program shall promote
     2  educational  and  informational  materials  created,  through  available
     3  means, such as media advertising, billboards, printed literature, social
     4  media and the department's official website.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.