Bill Text: NY A01918 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the regulation of smoking and vaping on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public colleges and universities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01918-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1918

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the regulation  of
          smoking  and  vaping  on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public
          colleges and universities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1399-ii of the
     2  public health law, as amended by section 12 of part EE of chapter 56  of
     3  the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  School-based  programs,  including  those located at colleges and
     5  universities, to prevent  and  reduce  tobacco  use  and  use  of  vapor
     6  products;
     7    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  1399-o of the public health law is
     8  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     9    c. on the grounds or other outdoor areas  of  any  public  college  or
    10  university that are owned, leased or operated by such college or univer-
    11  sity,  except that the restrictions in this paragraph shall not apply to
    12  any outdoor spaces or areas that  are  shared  between  the  college  or
    13  university and private parties pursuant to a lease, or to such spaces or
    14  areas  that  are  not under the full and sole control of such college or
    15  university.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03323-01-3