Assembly Bill A5716

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires sunscreen be made available at all state parks, recreational facilities, historic sites or programs and other appropriate locations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A5716 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3921
Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3.09, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7659
2019-2020: A6009
2021-2022: A6826, S4607
2023-2024: A2426, S4807

2025-A5716 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to make sunscreen available at the entrance to all state parks, recreational facilities, historic sites or programs and other appropriate locations at the discretion of such commissioner; defines term as any topical sunscreen product approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter use for the purpose of avoiding overexposure to the sun and not for medical treatment of any injury or illness.

2025-A5716 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5716
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to requiring sunscreen be made available at all state  parks,
   recreational  facilities,  historic sites or programs and other appro-
   priate locations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and
 historic  preservation law, as added by chapter 338 of the laws of 2005,
 is amended to read as follows:
   21. (A) Develop, in consultation  with  the  commissioner  of  health,
 informational  signs  and  brochures  alerting patrons of the dangers of
 overexposure to the sun and its relationship to skin cancer. The  infor-
 mation  on  such  signs  and  in such brochures shall include methods by
 which an individual may help prevent exposure to the sun and lessen [his
 or her] SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S risk of contracting skin  cancer.  Such  signs
 and  informational brochures shall be placed in appropriate locations at
 the discretion of the commissioner.
   (B) MAKE SUNSCREEN AVAILABLE AT  THE  ENTRANCE  TO  ALL  STATE  PARKS,
 RECREATIONAL  FACILITIES, HISTORIC SITES OR PROGRAMS AND OTHER APPROPRI-
 ATE LOCATIONS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSIONER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SUBDIVISION, THE TERM "SUNSCREEN" SHALL MEAN ANY TOPICAL  SUNSCREEN
 PRODUCT  APPROVED  BY THE FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR OVER-
 THE-COUNTER USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF AVOIDING OVEREXPOSURE TO THE SUN  AND
 NOT FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AN INJURY OR ILLNESS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
 ly,  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations
 necessary for the implementation of the foregoing provisions of this act
 on its effective date  are  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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