Bill Text: NY A10431 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the manufacture for sale, sale, hold or offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in the state; creates penalties for violations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-24 - referred to agriculture [A10431 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10431-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10431 IN ASSEMBLY May 24, 2024 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Flood) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Agriculture AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to prohib- iting the manufacture for sale, sale, hold or offer for sale, or distribution of cultivated meat in the state The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 96-g of the agriculture and markets law is amended 2 by adding a new subdivision 18 to read as follows: 3 18. "Cultivated meat" means any meat or food product produced from 4 cultured animal cells. 5 § 2. Section 96-h of the agriculture and markets law, as added by 6 chapter 573 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 7 § 96-h. Application of article. 1. Notwithstanding any other 8 provisions of this article, the knowing sale, exposure for sale, 9 exchange or transportation at any and all places within the state of the 10 fur, hair, skin or flesh of domesticated dog (canis familiaris) or 11 domesticated cat (felis catus or domesticus) as food, meat, custom 12 slaughtered meat, farm dressed meat, meat by-product or meat food prod- 13 uct edible by humans or animals is hereby prohibited. A violation of 14 this section shall subject the offender to a civil penalty of up to one 15 thousand dollars for an individual and up to five thousand dollars for a 16 corporation for the first violation. Any subsequent violation shall be 17 subject to a civil penalty of up to twenty-five thousand dollars. Any 18 civil penalties collected pursuant to this section shall be paid to the 19 animal population control fund established by section ninety-seven-xx of 20 the state finance law. Any authorization given by or pursuant to the 21 provisions of this article to handle, sell, expose for sale, exchange or 22 transport the carcasses of animals, parts thereof, meat, meat by-pro- 23 ducts and meat food products within the state and any exclusion from the 24 application of this article applicable to custom slaughtered meat or 25 contained in section ninety-six-j or another provision of this article 26 shall not apply to the knowing sale, exposure for sale, exchange or 27 transportation of the fur, hair, skin or flesh of domesticated dog or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15651-01-4A. 10431 2 1 domesticated cat as food, meat, custom slaughtered meat, farm dressed 2 meat, meat by-product or meat food product edible by humans or animals 3 which is prohibited by the provisions of this section. In the case of 4 any conflict with another provision of this article, the provisions of 5 this section shall prevail over such other provision of this article. 6 2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, it shall be 7 unlawful for any person to manufacture for sale, sell, hold or offer for 8 sale, or distribute cultivated meat in this state. A person who knowing- 9 ly violates this section commits a class B misdemeanor. A food estab- 10 lishment that manufactures, distributes, or sells cultivated meat in 11 violation of this section shall be subject to disciplinary action 12 including a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars for an individ- 13 ual and up to five thousand dollars for a corporation for the first 14 violation. Any subsequent violation shall be subject to a civil penalty 15 of up to twenty-five thousand dollars. Any civil penalties collected 16 pursuant to this section shall be paid to the animal population control 17 fund established by section ninety-seven-xx of the state finance law. 18 In addition to the penalties provided in this section the license of any 19 restaurant, store, or other business may be suspended as provided in the 20 applicable licensing law upon the conviction of an owner or employee of 21 that business for a violation of this section in connection with that 22 business. A product found to be in violation of this section is subject 23 to seizure and quarantine under the provisions of section two hundred 24 two-b of this chapter. The department may adopt rules to implement this 25 section. 26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
