Bill Text: NY S06395 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet from a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06395 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06395-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6395

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 the  placement  of
          tobacco  vending  machines near schools, churches, synagogues or other
          places of worship

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  1399-dd  of the public health law, as amended by
     2  chapter 448 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision (d) as amended by  chap-
     3  ter 100 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    §  1399-dd.  Sale of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes or electronic
     5  cigarettes in vending machines. No person, firm, partnership, company or
     6  corporation shall operate a  vending  machine  which  dispenses  tobacco
     7  products, herbal cigarettes or electronic cigarettes unless such machine
     8  is  located: (a) in a bar as defined in subdivision one of section thir-
     9  teen hundred ninety-nine-n of this chapter, or the bar area  of  a  food
    10  service establishment with a valid, on-premises full liquor license; (b)
    11  in  a  private club; (c) in a tobacco business as defined in subdivision
    12  eight of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article; or (d)
    13  in a place of employment which has an insignificant portion of its regu-
    14  lar workforce comprised of people under the age of twenty-one years  and
    15  only  in  such  locations that are not accessible to the general public;
    16  provided, however, that in such locations the vending machine is located
    17  in plain view and under the direct supervision and control of the person
    18  in charge of the location or his or her designated  agent  or  employee;
    19  provided, further, however, that no such vending machine shall be within
    20  three hundred fifty feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school,
    21  church, synagogue or other place of worship.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07877-01-3