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Assembly Bill A9526

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to banning electronic cigarettes on school grounds

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2013-A9526 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6704
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1399-o, Pub Health L

2013-A9526 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to banning electronic cigarettes on school grounds.

2013-A9526 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9526

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 6, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the ban  of  elec-
  tronic cigarettes on school grounds

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1399-o of the public  health  law,
as  added  by  chapter  449  of  the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
follows:
  3. (A) Smoking, WHICH FOR PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  ALSO
INCLUDE THE SMOKING OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, shall not be permitted and
no person shall smoke within one hundred feet of the entrances, exits or
outdoor  areas of any public or private elementary or secondary schools;
provided, however, that the provisions of  this  subdivision  shall  not
apply  to  smoking  in a residence, or within the real property boundary
lines of such residential real property. The provisions of section thir-
teen hundred ninety-nine-p of this  article  shall  not  apply  to  this
subdivision.
  (B)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES" SHALL
INCLUDE ANY DEVICE THAT SIMULATES THE ACT OF SMOKING BUT PRODUCES  WATER
VAPOR  INSTEAD  OF  SMOKE. SUCH ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT
NOT BE LIMITED TO, E-CIGARETTES, HOOKAH PENS, OR VAPING PENS.  IT  SHALL
NOT BE NECESSARY THAT AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CONTAIN NICOTINE.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14200-04-4

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