NY State Senate Bill 2017-S8670

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 31, 2018	reported and committed to finance
May 10, 2018	referred to health

Votes

- May 31, 2018 - Health Committee Vote
  S8670
  
  Aye
  
  13
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  4
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  
  0
  - - Health Committee Vote: May 31, 2018
      
      aye (13)
      
      Felder
      
      Hannon
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Larkin
      
      Mayer
      
      Murphy
      
      Persaud
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      aye wr (4)
      
      Golden
      
      Little
      
      Montgomery
      
      Valesky

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2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §2500-l, Pub Health L

2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires food allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers that are not located on one, two and three-family residential real property.

2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8670

SPONSOR: HANNON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring food
allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers

 
PURPOSE:

To amend the Public Health Law, in relation to requiring food allergy
signage around parks, playgrounds and recreation centers.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill amends the Public Health Law by adding a new
section 2500-1 Food allergy awareness signage on playgrounds and in
parks and/or recreation areas. It creates definitions for the words
playground, park and/or recreation center for this section. It also
establishes that the commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations
for the person or entity that operates the playground, park and/or

recreation center to post food allergy awareness signage.  Sets minimum
standards for signage: a) dangers associated with food allergies, b)
list of action by children and caregivers to take to mitigate risk of
causing allergy attack which includes: (i) eating outside play area,
(ii) not offering food to others without permission, (iii) washing hands
after eating.

Section two of the bill establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Giovanni Cipriano, a resident of Lawrence, NY, was born with severe food
allergies. At the young age of 14, Giovanni suffered an anaphylactic
reaction and died.

Food allergies are prevalent across the U.S. Roughly 15 million people
have food allergies, with 6 million of them children. 1 in 13 children
in any given classroom have some sort of food allergy. The mere act of
eating (or even touching) an item of food, and subsequently touching
playground equipment, causes cross-contamination and thereby exposes
children with food allergies to a significant risk of anaphylactic
reaction, many of which can be life-threatening. Simply placing a sign
to bring awareness to the recommended safety measures that can easily be
taken to prevent cross-contamination will greatly reduce this risk, and
potentially save many lives. Raising such awareness stands to benefit
everyone involved.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Cost of signage.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately,
the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is author-
ized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective
date.

2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8670
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  requiring  food
   allergy signage around parks, playgrounds, and recreation centers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2500-l to read as follows:
   §  2500-L.  FOOD ALLERGY AWARENESS SIGNAGE ON PLAYGROUNDS AND IN PARKS
 AND/OR RECREATION CENTERS. 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SECTION:
   A.  "PLAYGROUND"  SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SET FORTH IN SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION  THIRTEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-O-1  OF  THE  PUBLIC
 HEALTH  LAW.  PLAYGROUNDS  OR PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT CONSTRUCTED UPON ONE,
 TWO AND THREE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL  REAL  PROPERTY  ARE  EXEMPT  FROM  THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   B. "PARK AND/OR RECREATION CENTER" SHALL MEAN:
   (I)  ANY  LOCATION  WITHIN  STATE  OR MUNICIPAL PARKLAND THAT HAS BEEN
 DESIGNATED IN REGULATION BY THE  COMMISSIONER  AS  A  PLACE  WHERE  FOOD
 ALLERGY INCIDENTS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR; OR
   (II) ANY LOCATION OUTSIDE OF STATE OR MUNICIPAL PARKLAND THAT HAS BEEN
 DESIGNATED  IN  REGULATION  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  AS A PLACE WHERE FOOD
 ALLERGY INCIDENTS ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR, PROVIDED THAT LOCATION  IS  BEING
 UTILIZED  FOR ACTIVITIES OVERSEEN BY THE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
 HISTORIC PRESERVATION OR A LOCAL PARKS AND/OR RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND  REGULATIONS  REQUIRING
 THE  PERSON OR ENTITY THAT OPERATES A PLAYGROUND OR A PARK AND/OR RECRE-
 ATION CENTER TO POST FOOD ALLERGY AWARENESS SIGNAGE. AT A MINIMUM,  SUCH
 SIGNAGE SHALL:
   A. INFORM CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS OF THE DANGERS ASSOCIATED WITH
 FOOD ALLERGIES; AND
   B.  INCLUDE  A  LIST OF ACTIONS THAT CHILDREN AND THEIR CAREGIVERS CAN
 TAKE IN ORDER TO MITIGATE THE RISK OF CAUSING AN ALLERGY ATTACK, INCLUD-
 ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13645-01-7

 S. 8670                             2
 
   (I) EATING AT DESIGNATED AREAS OUTSIDE OF THE PLAY OR RECREATION AREA,
 IN ORDER TO AVOID FOOD CONTAMINATION OF THE PLAYGROUND OF  OTHER  RECRE-
 ATION EQUIPMENT;
   (II)  NOT  OFFERING  FOOD  TO OTHER CHILDREN WITHOUT THEIR CAREGIVERS'
 PERMISSION; AND
   (III) WASHING OR OTHERWISE CLEANING THEIR HANDS AFTER EATING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
 necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is
 authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
 effective date.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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