Bill Text: NY S00779 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Sets nutrition standards for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at children.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CODES [S00779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00779-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         779--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, KENNEDY, PANEPINTO -- 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 to amend the public health law, in relation to setting  nutrition
          standards  for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at chil-
          dren
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  1352-f to read as follows:
     3    § 1352-f. Incentive items with restaurant food. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
     5    a. "Incentive item" shall mean any toy, game, trading card,  admission
     6  ticket  or  other  consumer  product,  whether physical or digital, with
     7  particular appeal to children, which is provided directly by the restau-
     8  rant, or any coupon, voucher, ticket, token, code or password  which  is
     9  provided  directly  by  the  restaurant  and is redeemable for or grants
    10  digital or other access to any toy, game, trading card, admission  tick-
    11  et, or other consumer product with particular appeal to children.
    12    b.  "Meal"  shall mean any combination of food and drink items offered
    13  together for a single price.
    14    c. "Restaurant" shall mean any coffee shop,  cafeteria,  luncheonette,
    15  sandwich  stand,  diner, short order cafe, fast food establishment, soda
    16  fountain, and any other eating or beverage establishment, which gives or
    17  offers for sale food or beverages to the  public,  guests,  members,  or
    18  patrons,  whether  food  or beverages are customarily consumed on or off
    19  the premises.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04332-02-6