Bill Text: NY A05700 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A05700 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05700-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5700

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  elec-
          tronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specif-
          ic  locations  where  only persons of at least twenty-one years of age
          are allowed to enter

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 1399-cc of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  and  a  new
     3  subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
     4    7.  No  person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
     5  herbal cigarettes, [liquid nicotine,] or  shisha  [or  electronic  ciga-
     6  rettes]  are  sold  or  offered  for sale shall sell, permit to be sold,
     7  offer for sale or display for sale any  tobacco  product,  herbal  ciga-
     8  rettes,  [liquid  nicotine,]  or shisha [or electronic cigarettes in any
     9  manner], unless such products and cigarettes are  stored  for  sale  (a)
    10  behind  a  counter  in  an area accessible only to the personnel of such
    11  business,  or  (b)  in  a  locked  container;  provided,  however,  such
    12  restriction  shall not apply to tobacco businesses, as defined in subdi-
    13  vision eight of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article,
    14  and to places to which admission is  restricted  to  persons  twenty-one
    15  years of age or older.
    16    8.  No person operating a place of business wherein liquid nicotine or
    17  electronic cigarettes are sold or offered for sale shall sell, permit to
    18  be sold, offer for sale or display for sale any liquid nicotine or elec-
    19  tronic cigarettes unless such place of business  is  a  place  to  which
    20  admission is restricted to persons twenty-one years of age or older.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08003-01-1