Bill Text: NY A09096 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the display of tobacco products in pharmacies.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-29 - defeated in health [A09096 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09096-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9096--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 13, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, TITONE, MOSLEY, JAFFEE, JACOBS, GOTT-
FRIED, OTIS, SEPULVEDA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERETTO,
PERRY, RYAN, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the display of
tobacco products in pharmacies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Article 13-F of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new section 1399-ccc to read as follows:
3 S 1399-CCC. REGULATIONS ON PHARMACIES SELLING TOBACCO. 1. LICENSED
4 RETAIL PHARMACIES AND OTHER RETAIL STORES WITH A LICENSED PHARMACY ON
5 THE PREMISES, THAT SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS SHALL ONLY DISPLAY TOBACCO
6 PRODUCTS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES AND CIGARS,
7 IN A MANNER SO THAT DISPLAY OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS IS COVERED OUT OF VIEW
8 FROM THE PUBLIC. SUCH COVERING SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE MANAGEMENT OF
9 THE RETAIL STORE.
10 2. THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO BOTH CHAIN AND NON-CHAIN PHARMACIES
11 THAT OPERATE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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