Bill Text: NY S00993 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits smoking tobacco products in and around after-school programs while such programs are in operation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-08-13 - SIGNED CHAP.100 [S00993 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00993-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 993--A Cal. No. 391 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 8, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, PARKER, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public health law and the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the smoking of tobacco products in or near after-school programs THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 1399-o of the public health law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. SMOKING SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED AND NO PERSON SHALL SMOKE WITHIN ONE 4 HUNDRED FEET OF THE ENTRANCES, EXITS OR OUTDOOR AREAS OF ANY 5 AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM LICENSED OR REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE 6 HUNDRED NINETY OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE 7 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ONLY APPLY ON THOSE DAYS AND DURING 8 THOSE HOURS IN WHICH SUCH AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE OPERATIONAL; AND 9 PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT 10 APPLY TO SMOKING IN A RESIDENCE, OR WITHIN THE REAL PROPERTY BOUNDARY 11 LINES OF SUCH RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY. 12 S 2. Section 1399-p of the public health law is amended by adding a 13 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 14 3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS 15 THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION THIR- 16 TEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-O OF THIS ARTICLE, PROVIDED THAT SIGNS POSTED 17 PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL SPECIFY THE SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD 18 DURING WHICH SMOKING SHALL BE PROHIBITED. 19 S 3. Section 21-120.1 of the administrative code of the city of New 20 York, as added by local law number 31 of the city of New York for the 21 year 2000, is amended by adding a new subdivision i to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05903-02-5 S. 993--A 2 1 I. SMOKING SHALL NOT BE PERMITTED AND NO PERSON SHALL SMOKE WITHIN ONE 2 HUNDRED FEET OF THE ENTRANCES, EXITS OR OUTDOOR AREAS OF ANY 3 AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM LICENSED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION; PROVIDED, HOWEV- 4 ER, THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ONLY APPLY ON THOSE 5 DAYS AND DURING THOSE HOURS IN WHICH SUCH AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS ARE 6 OPERATIONAL; AND PROVIDED THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL 7 NOT APPLY TO SMOKING IN A RESIDENCE, OR WITHIN THE REAL PROPERTY BOUNDA- 8 RY LINES OF SUCH RESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY. SIGNS MAY BE POSTED, PURSU- 9 ANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-P OF 10 THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, SPECIFYING THE SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH 11 SMOKING SHALL BE PROHIBITED. 12 S 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law.