NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4930A

Senate Bill S4930A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring chain restaurants to place a salt-shaker-like symbol on menus next to food items that contain more than two thousand three hundred milligrams of sodium

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Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 28, 2020	committed to rules
Mar 18, 2020	advanced to third reading
Mar 11, 2020	2nd report cal.
Mar 10, 2020	1st report cal.603
Jan 08, 2020	referred to health returned to senate died in assembly
Jun 18, 2019	referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate
Jun 11, 2019	amended on third reading 4930a
May 06, 2019	advanced to third reading
May 01, 2019	2nd report cal.
Apr 30, 2019	1st report cal.542
Mar 29, 2019	referred to health

Votes

- Jun 18, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S4930A
  
  43
  
  Aye
  
  19
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 18, 2019
      
      aye (43)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Harckham
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Liu
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thomas
      
      nay (19)
      
      Amedore
      
      Antonacci
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Griffo
      
      Helming
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Martinez
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Serino
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Tedisco
  Mar 10, 2020 - Health Committee Vote
  S4930A
  
  10
  
  Aye
  
  3
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Health Committee Vote: Mar 10, 2020
      
      aye (10)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Carlucci
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      Stavisky
      
      nay (3)
      
      Gallivan
      
      Little
      
      Ritchie
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Ortt
      
      excused (1)
      
      Jacobs
  Apr 30, 2019 - Health Committee Vote
  S4930A
  
  11
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Health Committee Vote: Apr 30, 2019
      
      aye (11)
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Carlucci
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Salazar
      
      Stavisky
      
      nay (2)
      
      Jacobs
      
      Little
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Antonacci
      
      Gallivan

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2019-S4930 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3871
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1356, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: A8266
2017-2018: A4534
2021-2022: S2532, A8860
2023-2024: S4890, A6529
2025-2026: S428, A5207

2019-S4930 - Summary

Requires chain restaurants to place a salt-shaker-like symbol on menus next to food items that contain more than two thousand three hundred milligrams of sodium.

2019-S4930 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4930 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4930
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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  chain
   restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
 
   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
 1356 to read as follows:
   §  1356.  CHAIN  RESTAURANTS;  SODIUM  CONTENT  OF  MENU ITEMS. 1. FOR
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL  HAVE  THE  FOLLOWING
 MEANINGS:
   A.  "CHAIN RESTAURANT" SHALL MEAN A RESTAURANT WHICH IS ONE OF FIFTEEN
 OR MORE RESTAURANTS THAT ARE OPERATED UNDER THE SAME NAME  AT  DIFFERENT
 LOCATIONS  WITHIN THE STATE AND ARE OPERATED UNDER THE SAME OWNERSHIP OR
 BY FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS.
   B. "RESTAURANT" SHALL MEAN ANY COMMERCIAL EATING  ESTABLISHMENT  WHICH
 IS  DEVOTED,  WHOLLY  OR  IN  PART,  TO THE SALE OF FOOD FOR ON-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION.
   2. EVERY CHAIN RESTAURANT OPERATING WITHIN THIS STATE SHALL  CAUSE  TO
 BE  PLACED  ON ITS MENUS A SALT-SHAKER-LIKE SYMBOL NEXT TO ANY FOOD ITEM
 THAT IS OFFERED FOR SALE BY SUCH RESTAURANT THAT CONTAINS MORE THAN  TWO
 THOUSAND  THREE  HUNDRED  MILLIGRAMS  OF  SODIUM.  SUCH MENUS SHALL ALSO
 CONTAIN A STATEMENT THAT THE PLACEMENT OF SUCH  SALT-SHAKER-LIKE  SYMBOL
 NEXT TO A MENU ITEM INDICATES THAT SUCH MENU ITEM CONTAINS MORE THAN TWO
 THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS OF SODIUM.
   3.  ANY  CHAIN RESTAURANT THAT VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION
 SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN TWO  HUNDRED  FIFTY
 DOLLARS FOR EACH MENU THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS
 SECTION.
   §  2.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to chain restaurants
 located in any city with a population of one  million  or  more  on  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD08222-01-9

 S. 4930                             2
 
 after  the  date  on  which  such  city, or any department of such city,
 adopts or enacts, a rule, regulation, ordinance,  local  law,  order  or
 policy  having the same or substantially similar effect as the provision
 of this act; provided, however, that any restaurant located in such city
 shall  be  used  in calculating the number of restaurants located within
 this state for purposes of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section  1356
 of the public health law as added by section one of this act.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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2019-S4930A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3871
Current Committee:: Senate Rules
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1356, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: A8266
2017-2018: A4534
2021-2022: S2532, A8860
2023-2024: S4890, A6529
2025-2026: S428, A5207

2019-S4930A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires chain restaurants to place a salt-shaker-like symbol on menus next to food items that contain more than two thousand three hundred milligrams of sodium.

2019-S4930A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4930A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4930--A
     Cal. No. 542
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favora-
   bly from said committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered
   to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
   in the order of third reading

 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to requiring chain
   restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of sodium
 
   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
 1356 to read as follows:
   § 1356. CHAIN RESTAURANTS;  SODIUM  CONTENT  OF  MENU  ITEMS.  1.  FOR
 PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING
 MEANINGS:
   A. "CHAIN RESTAURANT" SHALL MEAN A RESTAURANT WHICH IS ONE OF  FIFTEEN
 OR  MORE  RESTAURANTS THAT ARE OPERATED UNDER THE SAME NAME AT DIFFERENT
 LOCATIONS WITHIN THE STATE AND ARE OPERATED UNDER THE SAME OWNERSHIP  OR
 BY FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS.
   B.  "RESTAURANT"  SHALL MEAN ANY COMMERCIAL EATING ESTABLISHMENT WHICH
 IS DEVOTED, WHOLLY OR IN PART, TO  THE  SALE  OF  FOOD  FOR  ON-PREMISES
 CONSUMPTION.
   2.  EVERY  CHAIN RESTAURANT OPERATING WITHIN THIS STATE SHALL CAUSE TO
 BE PLACED ON ITS MENUS A SALT-SHAKER-LIKE SYMBOL NEXT TO ANY  FOOD  ITEM
 THAT  IS OFFERED FOR SALE BY SUCH RESTAURANT THAT CONTAINS MORE THAN TWO
 THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS  OF  SODIUM.  SUCH  MENUS  SHALL  ALSO
 CONTAIN  A  STATEMENT THAT THE PLACEMENT OF SUCH SALT-SHAKER-LIKE SYMBOL
 NEXT TO A MENU ITEM INDICATES THAT SUCH MENU ITEM CONTAINS MORE THAN TWO
 THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED MILLIGRAMS OF SODIUM.
   3. ANY CHAIN RESTAURANT THAT VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF  THIS  SECTION
 SHALL  BE  SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD08222-02-9

 S. 4930--A                          2
 
 DOLLARS FOR EACH MENU THAT DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS
 SECTION.
   §  2.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to chain restaurants
 located in any city with a population of one  million  or  more  on  and
 after  the  date  on  which  such  city, or any department of such city,
 adopts or enacts, a rule, regulation, ordinance,  local  law,  order  or
 policy  having the same or substantially similar effect as the provision
 of this act; provided, however, that any restaurant located in such city
 shall be used in calculating the number of  restaurants  located  within
 this  state for purposes of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 1356
 of the public health law as added by section one of this act.
   § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.

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