Bill Text: NY A09526 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to banning electronic cigarettes on school grounds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-06 - referred to health [A09526 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09526-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9526
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the ban  of  elec-
         tronic cigarettes on school grounds
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1399-o of the public  health  law,
    2  as  added  by  chapter  449  of  the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. (A) Smoking, WHICH FOR PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  ALSO
    5  INCLUDE THE SMOKING OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, shall not be permitted and
    6  no person shall smoke within one hundred feet of the entrances, exits or
    7  outdoor  areas of any public or private elementary or secondary schools;
    8  provided, however, that the provisions of  this  subdivision  shall  not
    9  apply  to  smoking  in a residence, or within the real property boundary
   10  lines of such residential real property. The provisions of section thir-
   11  teen hundred ninety-nine-p of this  article  shall  not  apply  to  this
   12  subdivision.
   13    (B)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES" SHALL
   14  INCLUDE ANY DEVICE THAT SIMULATES THE ACT OF SMOKING BUT PRODUCES  WATER
   15  VAPOR  INSTEAD  OF  SMOKE. SUCH ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
   16  NOT BE LIMITED TO, E-CIGARETTES, HOOKAH PENS, OR VAPING PENS.  IT  SHALL
   17  NOT BE NECESSARY THAT AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CONTAIN NICOTINE.
   18    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14200-04-4