Assembly Bill A6720

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to guidelines for food and beverages purchased or sold by state agencies

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A6720 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4364
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 2 Title 4-A §§252 - 254, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A5682, S4644

2023-A6720 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health to develop state food guidelines for foods purchased, served, and sold by state agencies, programs, and institutions and on state property.

2023-A6720 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6720
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SOLAGES,  SIMON, THIELE, SEAWRIGHT, BURDICK,
   EPSTEIN, HEVESI, KELLES, L. ROSENTHAL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, STECK, FAHY  --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to guidelines for
   food and beverages purchased or sold by state agencies

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Article 2 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new title 4-A to read as follows:
                                TITLE IV-A
                           STATE FOOD GUIDELINES
 SECTION 252. DEVELOPMENT OF STATE FOOD GUIDELINES.
         253. APPLICABILITY OF STATE FOOD GUIDELINES.
         254. IMPLEMENTATION OF STATE FOOD GUIDELINES.
   § 252. DEVELOPMENT OF STATE FOOD  GUIDELINES.  1.  WITHIN  SIX  MONTHS
 FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT, IN CONSUL-
 TATION WITH THE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES, SHALL BEGIN AN ASSESSMENT OF
 THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE PURCHASING, SERVICE, AND SALES OF EACH STATE AGEN-
 CY.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  DEVELOP  AND FINALIZE STATE FOOD GUIDELINES
 CONSIDERING THE FINDINGS OF  SUCH  ASSESSMENT  NO  LATER  THAN  EIGHTEEN
 MONTHS   FOLLOWING  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  FOR  FOODS
 PURCHASED, SERVED, AND SOLD BY  STATE  AGENCIES,  PROGRAMS,  AND  INSTI-
 TUTIONS  AND  ON STATE PROPERTY. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REPORT SUCH GUIDE-
 LINES TO THE GOVERNOR, TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, AND SPEAKER OF
 THE ASSEMBLY, AND DISSEMINATE THEM TO THE HEADS OF  ALL  STATE  AGENCIES
 THAT PURCHASE, PREPARE, OR SERVE FOOD AND BEVERAGES.
   2. THE STATE FOOD GUIDELINES DEVELOPED UNDER THIS SECTION SHALL:
   (A)  BE  CONSISTENT  WITH  OR  EXCEED  THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE MOST
 RECENT EDITION OF THE FEDERAL DIETARY GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS,  INCLUD-
 ING  AS TO SODIUM, WHOLE GRAINS, ADDED SUGARS, SATURATED FAT, CHOLESTER-
 OL, AND FIBER;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08603-01-3
              

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