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Assembly Bill A5495

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat

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2025-A5495 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Add §214-p, Ag & Mkts L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9715

2025-A5495 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat, also known as 2-chloro-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium.

2025-A5495 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5495
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON, TAPIA, DAVILA -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Agriculture
 
 AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to  prohib-
   iting the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a  new
 section 214-p to read as follows:
   §  214-P. SALE OF FOODS AND BEVERAGES CONTAINING CHLORMEQUAT PROHIBIT-
 ED. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE  TERM  "CHLORMEQUAT"  SHALL
 MEAN 2-CHLORO-N,N,N-TRIMETHYLETHAN-1-AMINIUM.
   2. NO PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP, ASSOCIATION OR ANY OTHER
 BUSINESS  ASSOCIATION SHALL SELL, OFFER TO SELL,  OR DISPLAY FOR SALE AT
 RETAIL ANY FOOD OR BEVERAGE FOR HUMAN   CONSUMPTION    WHICH    CONTAINS
 CHLORMEQUAT.
   3.  IT  SHALL BE AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE TO A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION
 THAT THE PERSON DID NOT KNOW AND COULD NOT REASONABLY  HAVE  KNOWN  THAT
 THE FOOD OR BEVERAGE CONTAINED CHLORMEQUAT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
 completed on or before such date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06535-01-5

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