STATE OF NEW YORK
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8553--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
October 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to reporting on food
security trends
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
3 (z) include as part of the department's annual participation in the
4 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, the 2024 U.S. Household Food
5 Security Survey Module: Six-Item Short Form Economic Research Service,
6 developed by the United States department of agriculture, and publicly
7 report annually the results of such survey module broken down to the
8 county level on the public website of the department.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13829-05-6
