What's happening
This bill requires restaurants to meet nutrition standards for meals sold with toys or other incentive items aimed at children.
Why it matters
Targets marketing tactics that encourage unhealthy eating habits in children. by restricting the use of toys and similar incentives to only those meals meeting specific nutritional criteria, potentially reducing the appeal of less nutritious options.
Empowers the state health commissioner to define detailed nutrition standards. , including limits on calories, sodium, fat, sugars, and requirements for fruits, vegetables, and grains, which could lead to healthier menu offerings across a broad range of food establishments.
Applies to a wide variety of restaurants and food businesses. , not just fast food chains, meaning the impact could be felt across nearly all places that sell food or drinks and offer child-targeted incentives.
Imposes escalating civil penalties for violations. , creating a financial incentive for restaurants to comply and potentially driving industry-wide changes in how children’s meals are constructed and marketed.
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Healthy Kids’ Meal Incentives
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2 Co-sponsors
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History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
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Healthier Kids’ Meal Toys
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3375
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, MOSLEY, FAHY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to setting nutrition standards for restaurants distributing incentive items aimed at children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1352-f to read as follows:
§ 1352-f. Incentive items with restaurant food. 1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
a. "Incentive item" shall mean any toy, game, trading card, admission ticket or other consumer product, whether physical or digital, with particular appeal to children, which is provided directly by the restaurant, or any coupon, voucher, ticket, token, code or password which is provided directly by the restaurant and is redeemable for or grants digital or other access to any toy, game, trading card, admission ticket, or other consumer product with particular appeal to children.
b. "Meal" shall mean any combination of food and drink items offered together for a single price.
c. "Restaurant" shall mean any coffee shop, cafeteria, luncheonette, sandwich stand, diner, short order cafe, fast food establishment, soda fountain, and any other eating or beverage establishment, which gives or offers for sale food or beverages to the public, guests, members, or patrons, whether food or beverages are customarily consumed on or off the premises.
2. The commissioner shall make regulations establishing nutritional standards for meals, food items, and beverages that may be offered for purchase in combination with an incentive item by a restaurant. A restaurant may offer an incentive item in combination with the purchase of a meal, food item, or beverage, only if the meal, food item, or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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beverage, meets nutritional standards established by the commissioner under this section. Nutritional standards under this section shall include but are not limited to: calories; sodium; percentage of calories from fat (which may differentiate among kinds or sources of fat); sugars and caloric sweeteners; and fruits, vegetables, and grains.
3. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be liable for a civil penalty of up to five hundred dollars for a first violation thereof; up to one thousand dollars for a second violation thereof; and up to two thousand five hundred dollars for a third or subsequent violation thereof.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
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