Bill Text: NY S02542 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires retailers of electronic cigarettes, or liquid nicotine, not otherwise registered with the department of taxation and finance to sell tobacco products, to register with such department.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2017-11-29 - VETOED MEMO.186 [S02542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02542-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2542--A
            Cal. No. 645
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  HANNON,  AKSHAR, AVELLA -- 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 tax law, in relation to the registration of  vendors
          of electronic cigarettes
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The tax law is amended by adding a new article 20-C to read
     2  as follows:
     3                                ARTICLE 20-C
     4                            VENDORS OF ELECTRONIC
     5                                 CIGARETTES
     6  Section 492. Registration to vendors of electronic cigarettes.
     7    § 492. Registration to vendors of electronic cigarettes.   Any  person
     8  selling or offering for sale electronic cigarettes, as defined in subdi-
     9  vision thirteen of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public
    10  health  law, or liquid nicotine, as defined in paragraph (e) of subdivi-
    11  sion one of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-cc of the public health
    12  law, that is not otherwise registered with the department to sell tobac-
    13  co products as required by article twenty of this chapter and the  regu-
    14  lations  adopted  pursuant  thereto,  shall register with the department
    15  pursuant to this section.  The commissioner shall adopt regulations  for
    16  the establishment of such registration including standards for issuance,
    17  renewal  and  revocation  of  such registration, and ensuring compliance
    18  with the provisions of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect the first day of the month  commencing
    20  after  the  one hundred eightieth day after this act shall have become a
    21  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    22  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    23  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed  to
    24  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03152-02-7