Bill Text: NY A08266 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A08266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08266-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8266
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 16, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       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    S  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
   22  DOLLARS FOR EACH MENU THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS
   23  SECTION.
   24    S  2.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to chain restaurants
   25  located in any city with a population of one  million  or  more  on  and
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       A. 8266                             2
    1  after  the  date  on  which  such  city, or any department of such city,
    2  adopts or enacts, a rule, regulation, ordinance,  local  law,  order  or
    3  policy  having the same or substantially similar effect as the provision
    4  of this act; provided, however, that any restaurant located in such city
    5  shall  be  used  in calculating the number of restaurants located within
    6  this state for purposes of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section  1356
    7  of the public health law as added by section one of this act.
    8    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    9  have become a law.