What's happening
This bill prohibits school employees from selling, promoting, or recommending dietary supplements to students, except under specific professional duties, and requires education on supplement risks.
Why it matters
Aims to prevent undue influence on students by restricting school staff (except those with explicit medical or curriculum-related duties) from selling or recommending dietary supplements, which could reduce commercial or peer pressure on students to use potentially risky products.
Requires the state education department to create and distribute clear guidelines and educational materials on the risks of supplements, particularly those marketed for athletic performance, muscle growth, or weight loss, addressing common areas of misuse and misinformation among youth.
Promotes transparency and parental involvement by mandating that parents, as well as students, are informed about the dangers associated with supplement use, potentially leading to better-informed decision-making at home.
Signals a broader public health and safety concern about the unregulated use of dietary supplements among minors, particularly in school settings where vulnerabilities to marketing or peer influence may be heightened.
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Ban Staff Supplement Promotion
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
4 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4535
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, GALEF, HOOPER, PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dietary supplements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3037 to read as follows:
§ 3037. Sale and endorsement of dietary supplements. No school district employee shall sell, market, provide, distribute, endorse or recommend, except when part of his or her required duties, such as nursing or medical duties requiring the provision of supplements as prescribed by a student's medical provider, classroom teaching duties related to supplements that may include recommendations of certain supplements, and any other required duties approved by the department, the use of dietary supplements, including, but not limited to vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, and amino acids, or concentrates, metabolites, constituents, extracts, or combinations of these ingredients, intended for ingestion in pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid form and not represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or diet and labeled as a dietary supplement, as defined under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, to any student. The department shall develop regulations to inform schools and their employees about the restrictions, and exceptions, on selling, marketing, providing, distributing, endorsing or recommending dietary supplements to students. The department shall develop and distribute to all schools information about the potential risks of using certain dietary supplements for enhanced athletic performance, muscle growth, weight loss and other similar purposes. Such information shall be used by coaches, health and physical education teachers, nurses and other school district employees
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to inform students, and their parents, about the potential risks associated with such dietary supplements.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately the commissioner of education is authorized and directed to promulgate any rule or regulation or to take any other necessary action to ensure the timely implementation of this act on its effective date.
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