Bill Text: NY A09715 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat, also known as 2-chloro-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - referred to agriculture [A09715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09715-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9715

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  prohib-
          iting the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
     2  section 214-p to read as follows:
     3    §  214-p. Sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat prohibit-
     4  ed. 1. For the purposes of this article, the  term  "chlormequat"  shall
     5  mean 2-chloro-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium.
     6    2. No person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or any other
     7  business  association shall sell, offer to sell,  or display for sale at
     8  retail any food or beverage for human   consumption    which    contains
     9  chlormequat.
    10    3.  It  shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of this section
    11  that the person did not know and could not reasonably  have  known  that
    12  the food or beverage contained chlormequat.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    16  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    17  completed on or before such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14860-01-4