STATE OF NEW YORK
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5495
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, TAPIA, DAVILA -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to prohib-
iting the sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
2 section 214-p to read as follows:
3 § 214-p. Sale of foods and beverages containing chlormequat prohibit-
4 ed. 1. For the purposes of this article, the term "chlormequat" shall
5 mean 2-chloro-N,N,N-trimethylethan-1-aminium.
6 2. No person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or any other
7 business association shall sell, offer to sell, or display for sale at
8 retail any food or beverage for human consumption which contains
9 chlormequat.
10 3. It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of this section
11 that the person did not know and could not reasonably have known that
12 the food or beverage contained chlormequat.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
17 completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06535-01-5
