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NY A05426
Bill
Status
2/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Steven Raga
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AI Summary
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Proposes a constitutional amendment to Article 1 adding a new Section 20 establishing a natural, inherent, and unalienable right to nutritious, sufficient, and quality food
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Guarantees the right to save and exchange seeds and to grow, raise, harvest, produce, and consume food of one's own choosing for personal nourishment and well-being
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Prohibits using these food rights to justify trespassing, theft, poaching, or other abuses of private property rights, public lands, or natural resources
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Establishes a fundamental right to be free from hunger, malnutrition, starvation, and endangerment of life due to food scarcity or lack of access
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Requires the amendment be referred to the next legislative session following a general election and published 3 months before that election, per constitutional amendment procedures
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
opinion referred to judiciary
1/30/2026