Prohibits the sale or offering for sale, delivery or manufacture of food or beverages containing kratom or its derivatives, or 7-hydroxymitragynine; provides penalties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9114
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- 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 the
sale of food or beverages containing kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine
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
2 398-g to read as follows:
3 § 398-g. Kratom and 7-hydroxymitragynine package labeling. 1. For the
4 purposes of this section:
5 (a) "kratom" means both Mitragyna speciosa, a tree native to Southeast
6 Asia, and the products derived from its leaves that are marketed as
7 herbal supplements; and
8 (b) 7-hydroxymitragynine means a psychoactive compound that occurs
9 naturally in the kratom plant.
10 2. On or after January first, two thousand twenty-seven, no person or
11 entity shall sell or offer for sale or manufacture or deliver in this
12 state any food or beverage product containing 7-hydroxymitragynine,
13 kratom or any derivative thereof.
14 3. Any person or entity in violation of this section shall be subject
15 to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for a first
16 violation and not more than one thousand dollars for a second or subse-
17 quent violation.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
19 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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