Bill Text: NY A08017 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring labeling indicating a food product is free of genetically modified organisms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-08 - enacting clause stricken [A08017 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08017-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8017
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 4, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Consumer Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to labeling
         products free of genetically modified organisms
         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 214-o to read as follows:
    3    S 214-O. LABELING OF FOOD PRODUCTS FREE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGAN-
    4  ISMS. FOOD PRODUCTS THAT NEITHER CONTAIN IN WHOLE OR IN PART GENETICALLY
    5  MODIFIED ORGANISMS SHALL BEAR ON A LABEL THE PHRASE "GMO FREE".
    6    FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  THIS SECTION, A "GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM"
    7  SHALL MEAN ANY ORGANISM THAT POSSESSES A NOVEL  COMBINATION  OF  GENETIC
    8  MATERIAL OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY.
    9    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   10  become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11258-01-5