Bill Text: NY A08911 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a public or private school; defines "flavored smokeless tobacco"; authorizes the commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-17 - print number 8911b [A08911 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08911-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8911--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 30, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the
          sale of flavored smokeless tobacco  within  five  hundred  feet  of  a
          public or private school

          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-cc-1 to read as follows:
     3    §  1399-cc-1. Sale of flavored smokeless tobacco; restrictions. 1.  No
     4  flavored smokeless tobacco product or component may be sold within  five
     5  hundred  feet  of  any  public  or  private school. For purposes of this
     6  subdivision, the term "flavored smokeless tobacco" shall mean any smoke-
     7  less tobacco product containing, made of, or  derived  from  tobacco  or
     8  nicotine  that  contains  a  constituent  that  imparts a characterizing
     9  flavor.
    10    2. The measurements in subdivision one of this section are to be taken
    11  in straight lines from the nearest point of the  property  line  of  the
    12  parcel  on which the school is located to the nearest point of the prop-
    13  erty line of the parcel on which the business is located.
    14    3. The commissioner may impose a civil penalty for a violation of this
    15  article in an amount not to exceed that set forth in subdivision one  of
    16  section twelve of this chapter.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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