New York S 9445: Prohibits the public display of kratom advertisements

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S09445 Summary:

BILL NOS09445 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10482

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SPONSORRYAN C

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, FAHY, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §396-aaaa, Gen Bus L

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Prohibits the public display of kratom advertisements within a certain distance of schools.

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BILL NOS09445 

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03/12/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

05/12/20261ST REPORT CAL.1108

05/13/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/14/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9445

 IN SENATE

 March 12, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
 public display of kratom advertisements

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

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 2 396-aaaa to read as follows:
 3 § 396-aaaa. Public display of kratom advertisements prohibited. 1. For
 4 purposes of this section:
 5 (a) "advertisement" means words, pictures, photographs, symbols,
 6 graphics or visual images of any kind, or any combination thereof, which
 7 bear a health warning required by federal statute, the purpose or effect
 8 of which is to identify a brand of a kratom product reasonably expected
 9 to be used with or for the consumption of kratom intended or reasonably
 10 expected to be used with or for the consumption of kratom product
 11 intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption
 12 of kratom or to promote the use or sale of a kratom product intended or
 13 reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption of kratom.
 14 (b) "kratom" shall have the same meaning as in subdivision one of
 15 section three hundred ninety-eight-g of this article.
 16 2. (a) No person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited
 17 partnership, association or any other business entity may place, cause
 18 to be placed, maintain or cause to be maintained, kratom product
 19 intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the consumption
 20 of kratom, advertisements in a store front or any exterior window or any
 21 door which is used for entry or egress by the public to the building or
 22 structure containing a place of business within one thousand five
 23 hundred feet of a school, provided that within New York city such prohi-
 24 bitions shall apply only within five hundred feet of a school.
 25 (b) Any person, corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited
 26 partnership, association or any other business entity in violation of
 27 this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15029-01-6

 S. 9445 2

 1 hundred dollars for a first violation and not more than one thousand
 2 dollars for a second or subsequent violation.
 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 4 have become a law.

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