Senate Bill S5531

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of kratom to individuals under the age of twenty-one

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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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2019-S5531 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8249
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 13-F Art Head, §1399-aa, add §1399-mmm, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A294
2023-2024: A4376

2019-S5531 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of kratom to individuals under the age of twenty-one; imposes a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for the sale or provision of kratom to any person under the age of twenty-one.

2019-S5531 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5531 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5531
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 6, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 the prohibition of
   the sale of kratom to individuals under the age of twenty-one
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  article heading of article 13-F of the public health
 law, as amended by chapter 448 of the laws of 2012, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
            REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS, HERBAL CIGARETTES,
              KRATOM AND SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA; DISTRIBUTION
                                 TO MINORS
   §  2.  Section 1399-aa of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14. "KRATOM" MEANS ANY PART OF THE PLANT MITRAGYNA  SPECIOSA,  WHETHER
 GROWING  OR  NOT,  AND  ANY  COMPOUND,  MANUFACTURE,  SALT,  DERIVATIVE,
 MIXTURE, OR PREPARATION OF SUCH PLANT.
   § 3. Article 13-F of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
 section 1399-mmm to read as follows:
   §  1399-MMM.  SALE  OF KRATOM PROHIBITED. 1. NO PERSON SHALL KNOWINGLY
 SELL OR PROVIDE KRATOM TO ANY OTHER PERSON  UNDER  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF
 AGE. ANY PERSON WHO VIOLATES THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
 SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
   2.(A)  ANY PERSON OPERATING A PLACE OF BUSINESS WHEREIN KRATOM IS SOLD
 OR OFFERED FOR SALE IS PROHIBITED FROM SELLING SUCH KRATOM  TO  INDIVID-
 UALS  UNDER  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF  AGE, AND SHALL POST IN A CONSPICUOUS
 PLACE A SIGN UPON WHICH THERE SHALL BE IMPRINTED  THE  FOLLOWING  STATE-
 MENT,  "SALE  OF  KRATOM  TO  PERSONS  UNDER  TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE IS
 PROHIBITED BY LAW".  SUCH SIGN SHALL BE PRINTED ON A WHITE CARD  IN  RED
 LETTERS AT LEAST ONE-HALF INCH IN HEIGHT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11257-01-9
              

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