Bill Text: NY S01390 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain food establishments to provide nutritional information to their customers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 1390A [S01390 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01390-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1390--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  in  relation to creating the menu nutritional disclosure act of
          2016
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as the "menu
     2  nutritional disclosure act of 2016".
     3    § 2. 1. For purposes of this  act,  the  following  definitions  shall
     4  apply:
     5    (a)  "Food  facility" means a food facility in the state that operates
     6  under common ownership or control with at least 9 other food  facilities
     7  with  the  same  name in the state that offer for sale substantially the
     8  same menu items, or operates as a franchised outlet of a parent  company
     9  with at least 9 other franchised outlets with the same name in the state
    10  that  offer  for  sale  substantially the same menu items, except that a
    11  "food facility" does not include the following:
    12    (i) Certified farmer's markets.
    13    (ii) Commissaries.
    14    (iii) Licensed health care facilities.
    15    (iv) Mobile support units.
    16    (v) Restricted food service facilities.
    17    (vi) Retail stores in which a majority of sales are from a pharmacy.
    18    (vii) Vending machines.
    19    (b) "Calorie content information" means the total number  of  calories
    20  per standard menu item, as that item is usually prepared and offered for
    21  sale.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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