STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4031

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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  the
          misbranding of food products not containing meat

          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 201-j to read as follows:
     3    §  201-j.  Misbranding  of  food  products not containing meat. A food
     4  product shall be deemed to be misbranded if the food product is  labeled
     5  or branded in a false, deceptive or misleading manner that misrepresents
     6  the  product  as meat or meat food product as those terms are defined in
     7  section ninety-six-g of this chapter or as poultry as defined in section
     8  ninety-b of this chapter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    11  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    12  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
    13  before such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07950-01-3