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A05862 Summary:

BILL NOA05862 

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SPONSORJackson

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Add §396-bbb, Gen Bus L

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Prohibits advertising for certain junk foods from being shown on television between the hours of six A.M. and nine P.M.

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BILL NOA05862 

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02/24/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5862

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- 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
 advertising for certain foods from being shown on television during
 certain hours

 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-bbb to read as follows:
 3 § 396-bbb. Television advertisements. 1. For the purposes of this
 4 section, the term "junk food" shall mean any food with:
 5 (a) more than four hundred calories per serving;
 6 (b) more than four hundred eighty milligrams of sodium per serving;
 7 (c) more than thirty-five percent of calories from fat;
 8 (d) more than ten percent of calories from saturated fat;
 9 (e) more than zero grams of trans fat;
 10 (f) more than thirty-five percent of calories from total sugars; or
 11 (g) more than fifteen grams of total sugars per serving.
 12 2. Any person, firm, corporation or association, or agent or employee
 13 thereof, hereinafter called person, who, being engaged in the business
 14 of operating a television station, makes, publishes, disseminates,
 15 circulates or places before the public or causes, directly or indirect-
 16 ly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the
 17 public, in this state, any advertisement respecting any junk food, over
 18 any television station between the hours of six A.M. and nine P.M.; is
 19 guilty of a misdemeanor.
 20 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 21 law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03428-01-5

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