New York S 427: Requires chain restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added sugars

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S00427 Summary:

BILL NOS00427A

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SAME ASSAME AS A05305-A

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRBROUK, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1359, Pub Health L

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Requires chain restaurants to display an added sugars warning next to or directly under the name of each food item with high added sugars content wherever such food item is listed on a menu, menu board, or food tag, and by any self-serve dispensing point at which such food item is dispensed.

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BILL NOS00427A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1365

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

02/04/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

06/01/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS

06/01/2026PRINT NUMBER 427A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 427--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, BROUK, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
 Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and
 committed to the Committee on Commerce, Economic Development and Small
 Business -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
 amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring chain
 restaurants to label menu items that have a high content of added
 sugars

 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 section
 2 1359 to read as follows:
 3 § 1359. Added sugar safety warnings for chain restaurants. 1. Defi-
 4 nitions. For purposes of this section the following terms shall have the
 5 following meanings:
 6 a. "Chain menu developer" means a person that owns and licenses the
 7 brand name under which the covered establishment does business, or any
 8 other person responsible for determining the formula or recipe for items
 9 displayed on the menu of a covered establishment.
 10 b. "Covered establishment" means a food service establishment, as
 11 defined in part fourteen of the New York sanitary code 10 NYCRR 14-1.20,
 12 that is part of a chain with fifteen or more locations within the state
 13 doing business under the same name, regardless of the type of ownership
 14 of the locations, and offering for sale substantially similar food
 15 items.
 16 c. "Food tag" means a written or printed description of food or bever-
 17 ages and their price, placed in the vicinity of a sample or self-serve
 18 item, including free-standing tags and tags attached to the shelf.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01668-03-6

 S. 427--A 2

 1 d. "Discrete serving" means the separated or easily separable uniform
 2 portion or portions of a food item comprising a reasonable estimate of
 3 one person's share of the food item. Food items without separated or
 4 easily separable uniform portions do not contain discrete servings.
 5 e. "High added sugars content" means the item contains one hundred
 6 percent or more of the daily value for added sugars, as established by
 7 the federal Food and Drug Administration.
 8 f. "Menu" means the primary writing of a covered establishment from
 9 which a customer makes an order selection, including but not limited to,
 10 breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus; dessert menus; beverage menus; chil-
 11 dren's menus; other specialty menus; electronic menus; and menus on the
 12 internet.
 13 g. "Menu board" means a menu posted inside a covered establishment as
 14 well as a menu posted outside a covered establishment, including a
 15 drive-through menu.
 16 h. "Food item" means a food