Bill Text: NY S01195 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-12-13 - VETOED MEMO.93 [S01195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1195

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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
        S. 1195                             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.