---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to retail food store, food service establishment and food warehouse licensing"
description: "Relates to retail food store, food service establishment and food warehouse licensing; defines terms; provides for licensure; authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and markets to grant, suspend or revoke licenses; authorizes civil practice law and rules article 78 proceedings to challenge the actions of such commissioner; authorizes such commissioner or such commissioner's duly authorized representatives to investigate and inspect such retail food stores or warehouses; requires the department of agriculture and markets to assign at least on retail food specialist to each inspection zone; provides for penalties and remedies; makes related provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "A 8419"
citation: "New York A 8419 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William Conrad"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-05-15"
last_action: "2025-10-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48ff7b65-cf95-42fb-94e5-dd34ba4f93b2"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8419"
source_hash: "8b9575b81213ea77c92b35b434df01a9101a332d0e34c30e320ad9425ff3d508"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 8419 (2025-2026) — Relates to retail food store, food service establishment and food warehouse licensing

Relates to retail food store, food service establishment and food warehouse licensing; defines terms; provides for licensure; authorizes the commissioner of agriculture and markets to grant, suspend or revoke licenses; authorizes civil practice law and rules article 78 proceedings to challenge the actions of such commissioner; authorizes such commissioner or such commissioner's duly authorized representatives to investigate and inspect such retail food stores or warehouses; requires the department of agriculture and markets to assign at least on retail food specialist to each inspection zone; provides for penalties and remedies; makes related provisions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A8419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A8419&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **58–1** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- William Conrad — primary (person)
- Tommy Schiavoni — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-05-15** REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** REPORTED
- **2025-06-10** RULES REPORT CAL.586
- **2025-06-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.586
- **2025-06-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-10** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2025-06-10** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8388
- **2025-06-12** 3RD READING CAL.1936
- **2025-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-12** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-10-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-10-16** SIGNED CHAP.459 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48ff7b65-cf95-42fb-94e5-dd34ba4f93b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).