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  provisions
    11  of  this  subdivision shall not prohibit smoking by patients in separate
    12  enclosed rooms of residential health care facilities, adult care facili-
    13  ties established or certified under title two of article  seven  of  the
    14  social  services  law,  community  mental  health residences established
    15  under section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, or facilities  where  day
    16  treatment  programs  are provided, which are designated as smoking rooms
    17  for 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
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