New York A 1451: Relates to the powers of the commissioner of health in administering the elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage program

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A01451 Summary:

BILL NOA01451 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORDinowitz (MS)

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COSPNSRCook, Glick, Rosenthal, Pheffer Amato, Epstein, Raga

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MLTSPNSRSimon, Steck

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Add Art 18 §§1800 - 1804, Pub Health L

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Enacts the New York healthy vending act requiring a percentage of food in vending machines on state property to be healthy.

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BILL NOA01451 

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01/09/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1451

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, COOK, GLICK, ROSENTHAL, PHEFFER AMATO,
 EPSTEIN, RAGA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, STECK -- read
 once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the New
 York healthy vending act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 18
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 18
 4 NEW YORK HEALTHY VENDING ACT
 5 Section 1800. Definitions.
 6 1801. Applicability.
 7 1802. Vending machine requirements.
 8 1803. Enforcement and reports.
 9 1804. Violations and penalties.
 10 § 1800. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 11 terms shall have the following meanings:
 12 1. "Food and beverage vending machine" means a self-service machine
 13 offered for public use that, on insertion of a coin, paper currency,
 14 token, card, or key, or by optional manual operation, dispenses servings
 15 of food or beverages in bulk or in packages, or prepared by the machine,
 16 without the necessity of replenishing the device between each vended
 17 operation.
 18 2. "Packaged" means bottled, canned, securely bagged, or securely
 19 wrapped, whether packaged in a food establishment or a food processing
 20 plant.
 21 3. "Healthy food or beverage option" means a packaged food or beverage
 22 that meets the requirements to be a healthy food option or a healthy
 23 beverage option established in section eighteen hundred two of this
 24 article.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03125-01-5

 A. 1451 2

 1 § 1801. Applicability. 1. All food and beverages sold by state agen-
 2 cies, including through vending machines located on property owned or
 3 leased by the state, shall meet minimum nutrition and procurement stand-
 4 ards as set forth in section eighteen hundred two of this article.
 5 2. If a food and beverage vending machine is located on state property
 6 that has been leased to a private entity, the department shall encourage
 7 the tenant to meet the requirements of this article.
 8 § 1802. Vending machine requirements. 1. Any packaged snack food and
 9 beverage option offered in a food and beverage vending machine shall
 10 contain:
 11 (a) zero grams of trans fat per serving; and
 12 (b) no more than two hundred milligrams of sodium per package.
 13 2. At a minimum, seventy-five percent of entree food items must meet
 14 the following calorie, sodium, fat, and sugar standards:
 15 (a) No more than four hundred calories per package/item;
 16 (b) No more than four hundred eighty milligrams of sodium per
 17 package/item;
 18 (c) No more than thirty-five percent of calories from fat per
 19 package/item (one gram fat = nine calories, therefore no more than
 20 fifteen grams for a four hundred-calorie item);
 21 (d) No more than ten percent of calories from saturated fat per
 22 package/item (one gram fat = nine calories, therefore no more than four
 23 grams for a four hundred-calorie item);
 24 (e) Zero grams trans fat per package/item; and
 25 (f) No more than thirty-five percent of calories from total sugars,
 26 with a maximum of fifteen grams of total sugars per package/item (one
 27 gram sugar = four calories).
 28 3. Each entree item must meet at least two of the following positive
 29 nutritional value st