Prohibits the sale of foods containing synthetic color additives in schools except under certain circumstances off and away from the premises or on premises at least a half hour after the end of the school day.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8707--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, ANGELINO, BURROUGHS, P. CARROLL, CLARK,
COLTON, CRUZ, DE LOS SANTOS, DINOWITZ, GALLAGHER, GIBBS, GLICK, HEVE-
SI, JACKSON, KAY, LEE, LEVENBERG, LUNSFORD, NORBER, PAULIN, RAGA,
REYES, ROSENTHAL, SAYEGH, SCHIAVONI, SEAWRIGHT, SHIMSKY, SIMON,
SLATER, STECK, STIRPE, TAGUE, TAPIA, TORRES -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on
Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the sale
of foods containing synthetic additives in schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 915-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 915-b. Prohibiting the sale of foods containing synthetic color
4 additives. 1. A vendor shall not offer to sell to any public schools
5 within the state foods or beverages, including competitive foods as
6 defined under 7 CFR 210.11(a)(2) and meals reimbursed under programs
7 authorized by the federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act
8 (Public Law 113-79) and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42
9 U.S.C. Sec. 1771 et seq.), containing any of the following substances:
10 a. FD&C Red No. 3
11 b. FD&C Red No. 40
12 c. FD&C Blue No. 1
13 d. FD&C Blue No. 2
14 e. FD&C Green No. 3
15 f. FD&C Yellow No. 5
16 g. FD&C Yellow No. 6
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. A school may permit the sale of foods and beverages that do not
2 comply with subdivision one of this section if the sale of such items
3 takes place either:
4 a. off and away from the premises of the school; or
5 b. on school premises at least one-half hour after the end of the
6 school day.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law.
