Bill Text: NY S03227 | 2021-2022 | 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 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-28 - referred to agriculture [S03227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3227

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
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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 post the results of
          its graded inspections on their website

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 of section
     2  500  of the agriculture and markets law, as amended by section 8 of part
     3  I1 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, are amended and a new  subdivision
     4  6 is added to read as follows:
     5    (b)  "Retail  food  store"  means  any  establishment or section of an
     6  establishment where food and food products are offered to  the  consumer
     7  and  intended  for  off-premises consumption, including, but not limited
     8  to, a supermarket, grocery store, convenience store, bodega  or  delica-
     9  tessen.  The term does not include establishments which handle only pre-
    10  packaged, non-potentially hazardous foods, roadside markets  that  offer
    11  only fresh fruits and fresh vegetables for sale, food service establish-
    12  ments,  or food and beverage vending machines.  For the purposes of this
    13  section, "bodega" shall mean a small grocery or  convenience  store  and
    14  "delicatessen"  shall  mean  a  store  selling cold cuts, cheeses, and a
    15  variety of salads, as well as a selection of unusual or foreign prepared
    16  foods.
    17    2. Each retail food store shall post a copy of the date and results of
    18  its most recent sanitary inspection by the department in  a  conspicuous
    19  location  near  each public entrance, as prescribed by the commissioner.
    20  Such copies shall also be made available to the public upon request  and
    21  placed  on the department's website. Any retail food store that fails to
    22  post such results shall be fined by the department one  hundred  dollars
    23  for each day of violation.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03632-01-1
        S. 3227                             2

     1    6.  The department shall post the results of its graded inspections on
     2  their website, including the retail food store's name, address, date  of
     3  inspection,  grade  and  a  list of any violations cited within fourteen
     4  days of a graded inspection.  The  department  shall  provide  on  their
     5  website  information  as to where a customer may file a consumer report.
     6  If a consumer report is filed with the  department  regarding  a  retail
     7  food  store,  such  consumer  report  and  contact  information shall be
     8  included on the graded inspection report provided to  such  retail  food
     9  store.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.