Bill Text: NY A00857 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits smoking within fifty feet of all entrances to state office buildings and restricts smoking outside buildings with indoor smoking restrictions; sets forth definitions of state office and state agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A00857 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00857-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 857 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, LIFTON, SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting smok- ing within fifty feet of all entrances to certain buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1399-n of the public health law is amended by 2 adding two new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows: 3 9. "State office" means any building or facility in the state wherein 4 one hundred or more employees, in aggregate, of any state agency are 5 located whether or not such office building or facility is owned, rented 6 or leased by the state. 7 10. "State agency" means any department of the executive, any bureau, 8 commission, agency, board or other agency, any public authority, and the 9 judiciary and the legislature. 10 § 2. Section 1399-o of the public health law is amended by adding a 11 new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 12 5. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke in the 13 outside area within fifty feet of an entrance to a building containing 14 one or more of the indoor areas listed in subdivision one of this 15 section, or in the outside area within fifty feet of any state office 16 building used for any state agency. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 18 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 19 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 20 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to 21 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. LBD01630-01-7