Bill Text: NY S04496 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Bans smoking in adult care facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04496 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04496-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4496 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 16, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to banning smoking in adult care facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph n of subdivision 1 of section 1399-o of the 2 public health law, as amended by chapter 389 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 n. general hospitals and residential health care facilities as defined 5 in article twenty-eight of this chapter, adult care facilities estab- 6 lished or certified under title two of article seven of the social 7 services law, community mental health residences established under 8 section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, facilities where day treatment 9 programs are provided, and other health care facilities licensed by the 10 state in which persons reside[; provided, however, that the provisions11of this subdivision shall not prohibit smoking by patients in separate12enclosed rooms of residential health care facilities, adult care facili-13ties established or certified under title two of article seven of the14social services law, community mental health residences established15under section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, or facilities where day16treatment programs are provided, which are designated as smoking rooms17for patients of such facilities or programs]; 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07826-01-7