Bill Text: NY A10613 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to health [A10613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10613-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10613

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages,
          K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
          persons  attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, aware-
          ness and control program

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  1399-ii-1  of the public health law, as added by
     2  section 11 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 1399-ii-1. Electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and
     5  control  program. 1. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collab-
     6  oration with the commissioner of education,  establish  and  develop  an
     7  electronic  cigarette  and  vaping  prevention,  control  and  awareness
     8  program within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate
     9  students, parents and school personnel about the health risks associated
    10  with vapor product use and control measures to reduce the prevalence  of
    11  vaping,  particularly  among  persons less than twenty-one years of age.
    12  Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the creation of  age-
    13  appropriate  instructional  tools  and materials that may be used by all
    14  schools, and marketing and advertising materials to discourage electron-
    15  ic cigarette use.
    16    2. The department shall contact the parents and/or  guardians  of  any
    17  such  person enrolled in secondary education who is found to be using or
    18  in possession of an electronic cigarette or  vapor  product  while  less
    19  than  twenty-one  years  of  age and inform them of such person's use or
    20  possession of an electronic cigarette or vapor product. Such person  and
    21  the  parents and/or guardians of such person shall be required to attend
    22  the electronic cigarette or vapor product prevention, control and aware-
    23  ness program established under subdivision one of this section.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    26  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    27  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    28  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06710-03-4