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Assembly Bill A9114

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting the sale of food or beverages containing kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine

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2025-A9114 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §398-g, Gen Bus L

2025-A9114 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale or offering for sale, delivery or manufacture of food or beverages containing kratom or its derivatives, or 7-hydroxymitragynine; provides penalties.

2025-A9114 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9114
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
   sale of food or beverages containing kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 398-g to read as follows:
   § 398-G. KRATOM AND 7-HYDROXYMITRAGYNINE PACKAGE LABELING. 1. FOR  THE
 PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
   (A) "KRATOM" MEANS BOTH MITRAGYNA SPECIOSA, A TREE NATIVE TO SOUTHEAST
 ASIA,  AND  THE  PRODUCTS  DERIVED  FROM ITS LEAVES THAT ARE MARKETED AS
 HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS; AND
   (B) 7-HYDROXYMITRAGYNINE MEANS A  PSYCHOACTIVE  COMPOUND  THAT  OCCURS
 NATURALLY IN THE KRATOM PLANT.
   2.  ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, NO PERSON OR
 ENTITY SHALL SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE OR MANUFACTURE OR  DELIVER  IN  THIS
 STATE  ANY  FOOD  OR  BEVERAGE  PRODUCT CONTAINING 7-HYDROXYMITRAGYNINE,
 KRATOM OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF.
   3. ANY PERSON OR ENTITY IN VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE  SUBJECT
 TO  A  CIVIL  PENALTY  OF NOT MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A FIRST
 VIOLATION AND NOT MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A SECOND OR  SUBSE-
 QUENT VIOLATION.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13687-02-5

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