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Assembly Bill A10307

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits smoking on the grounds of general hospitals and residential health care facilities

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2011-A10307 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7527
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1399-o, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A1115, S1987

2011-A10307 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits smoking on the grounds of general hospitals and residential health care facilities.

2011-A10307 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10307

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 22, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting smok-
  ing on hospital grounds and residential health care facilities

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 1399-o of the public health law,
as added by chapter 389 of the laws of  2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  2.  Smoking  shall  not  be permitted and no person shall smoke in the
following outdoor areas:
  A. ticketing, boarding or platform areas of railroad stations operated
by the metropolitan transportation authority or its subsidiaries.
  B. ON THE GROUNDS OF GENERAL HOSPITALS  AND  RESIDENTIAL  HEALTH  CARE
FACILITIES AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, AND OTHER
HEALTH  CARE  FACILITIES  LICENSED BY THE STATE IN WHICH PERSONS RESIDE,
WITHIN FIFTEEN FEET OF A BUILDING ENTRANCE OR  EXIT  OR  WITHIN  FIFTEEN
FEET  OF  THE  ENTRANCE  TO OR EXIT FROM THE GROUNDS OF ANY SUCH GENERAL
HOSPITAL, RESIDENTIAL HEALTH CARE FACILITY OR OTHER HEALTH CARE FACILITY
LICENSED BY THE STATE IN WHICH PERSONS RESIDE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15899-01-2

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