A5426 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Provides that all persons have the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food.
- Title
- Provides that all persons have the right to food and the right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation and the endangerment of life from the scarcity of or lack of access to nourishing food
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-30
- In committee
- Judiciary
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Law section
- Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Sponsors
- Steven Raga Assembly Member, District 30
Heard in committee
- Governmental Operations NY State Assembly committee
- Judiciary NY State Assembly committee