Bill Text: NY A00254 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 254

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that all persons have the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - to attorney-general for opinion [A00254 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00254-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           254

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary

                    CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

        proposing an amendment to article 1 of the constitution, in relation  to
          the  right to food and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition,
          starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of  or  lack
          of access to food

     1    Section  1.  Resolved  (if  the  Senate concur), That article 1 of the
     2  constitution be amended by adding a new section 20 to read as follows:
     3    § 20. All individuals have a natural, inherent and  unalienable  right
     4  to food, including the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to
     5  grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing
     6  for  their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, as
     7  long as an individual does not commit trespassing,  theft,  poaching  or
     8  other  abuses  of  private  property  rights,  public  lands  or natural
     9  resources in the harvesting, production or acquisition of food; further-
    10  more, all individuals have a fundamental right to be free  from  hunger,
    11  malnutrition,  starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity
    12  of or lack of access to nourishing food.
    13    § 2. Resolved  (if the Senate concur), That the  foregoing  amendments
    14  be referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
    15  next  succeeding  general  election  of members of the assembly, and, in
    16  conformity with  section  1  of  article  19  of  the  constitution,  be
    17  published 3 months previous to the time of such election.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD89027-01-5