Bill Text: NY S06562 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6562 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Makes the restrictions relating to smoking in public areas applicable to electronic cigarettes or any other device that vaporizes nicotine and other substances.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06562 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06562-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6562
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- 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  including  elec-
         tronic  cigarettes  within  provisions  regulating  smoking in certain
         public areas
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 8 of section 1399-n of the public health law,
    2  as amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    8.  "Smoking"  means  the burning of a lighted cigar, cigarette, ELEC-
    5  TRONIC CIGARETTE, pipe or any other matter or substance  which  contains
    6  tobacco.
    7    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    8  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13918-01-4