New York Assembly Bill A00077 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 77 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the creation and posting of food allergy posters in retail establishments 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. Food allergies posters. 1. For purposes of this section, 4 "food service establishment" shall have the meaning as such term is 5 defined in the state sanitary code, except that it shall not include any 6 pushcarts. 7 2. The department shall create a poster containing information on food 8 allergies for use in food service establishments in both English and 9 Spanish. 10 3. Every food service establishment shall post, in accordance with the 11 rules and regulations of the department, in an area visible to anyone 12 preparing or serving food, posters containing information on food aller- 13 gies provided by the department. 14 4. The department shall make such posters available and may charge a 15 fee to cover printing, postage and handling expenses. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 17 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 18 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 19 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 20 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00023-01-3