Bill Text: NY A00852 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires retailers of electronic cigarettes, not otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell tobacco products, to register with the department of health.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - substituted by s6003 [A00852 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00852-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          852
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  the  registration
         of vendors of electronic cigarettes
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  1399-dd-1 to read as follows:
    3    S  1399-DD-1.  REGISTRATION  OF VENDORS OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES.  ANY
    4  PERSON SELLING OR OFFERING FOR SALE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES  THAT  IS  NOT
    5  OTHERWISE REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE TO SELL
    6  TOBACCO  PRODUCTS  AS  REQUIRED BY ARTICLE TWENTY OF THE TAX LAW AND THE
    7  REGULATIONS ADOPTED PURSUANT THERETO, SHALL REGISTER  WITH  THE  DEPART-
    8  MENT.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
    9  A REGISTRY AND TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect the first day of the month  commencing
   11  after  the  one hundred eightieth day after this act shall have become a
   12  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend-
   13  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
   14  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed  to
   15  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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