Bill Text: NY A08761 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires food allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers that are not located on one, two and three-family residential real property.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - enacting clause stricken [A08761 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A08761-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8761 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY November 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. M. L. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring food allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers 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 2500-l to read as follows: 3 § 2500-l. Food allergy awareness signage on playgrounds and in parks 4 and/or recreation centers. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this 5 section: 6 a. "playground" shall have the same meaning as set forth in subdivi- 7 sion one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-o-1 of the public 8 health law. Playgrounds or playground equipment constructed upon one, 9 two and three-family residential real property are exempt from the 10 requirements of this section. 11 b. "park and/or recreation center" shall mean: 12 (i) any location within state or municipal parkland that has been 13 designated in regulation by the commissioner as a place where food 14 allergy incidents are likely to occur; or 15 (ii) any location outside of state or municipal parkland that has been 16 designated in regulation by the commissioner as a place where food 17 allergy incidents are likely to occur, provided that location is being 18 utilized for activities overseen by the office of parks, recreation and 19 historic preservation or a local parks and/or recreation department. 20 2. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requiring 21 the person or entity that operates a playground or a park and/or recre- 22 ation center to post food allergy awareness signage. At a minimum, such 23 signage shall: 24 a. inform children and their caregivers of the dangers associated with 25 food allergies; and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13645-01-7A. 8761 2 1 b. include a list of actions that children and their caregivers can 2 take in order to mitigate the risk of causing an allergy attack, includ- 3 ing, but not limited to: 4 (i) eating at designated areas outside of the play or recreation area, 5 in order to avoid food contamination of the playground of other recre- 6 ation equipment; 7 (ii) not offering food to other children without their caregivers' 8 permission; and 9 (iii) washing or otherwise cleaning their hands after eating. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate- 12 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is 14 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such 15 effective date.
