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Assembly Bill A9096A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to the display of tobacco products in pharmacies

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2013-A9096 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7106
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 13-F §1399-ccc, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3100, S1080

2013-A9096 - Summary

Relates to the display of tobacco products in pharmacies.

2013-A9096 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9096

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to the display of
  tobacco products in pharmacies

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

  Section  1. Article 13-F of the public health law is amended by adding
a new section 1399-ccc to read as follows:
  S 1399-CCC. REGULATIONS ON PHARMACIES  SELLING  TOBACCO.  1.  LICENSED
RETAIL  PHARMACIES AND GROCERY STORES WITH A LICENSED PHARMACY THAT SELL
TOBACCO PRODUCTS SHALL ONLY DISPLAY TOBACCO PRODUCTS INCLUDING, BUT  NOT
LIMITED  TO, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES AND CIGARS, IN A MANNER SO THAT DISPLAY
OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS IS COVERED OUT OF VIEW FROM THE PUBLIC. SUCH  COVER-
ING SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE LICENSED RETAIL OWNER.
  2.  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  APPLY TO BOTH CHAIN AND NON-CHAIN PHARMACIES
THAT OPERATE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
  3. THE PROVISIONS OF  SECTIONS  THIRTEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-EE  AND
THIRTEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-NINE-FF  OF  THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL APPLY TO ANY
VIOLATIONS OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the seventeenth  of  November  next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13906-04-4

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2013-A9096A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7106
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 13-F §1399-ccc, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3100, S1080

2013-A9096A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the display of tobacco products in pharmacies.

2013-A9096A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 9096--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 13, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, TITONE, MOSLEY, JAFFEE, JACOBS, GOTT-
  FRIED, OTIS, SEPULVEDA -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  CERETTO,
  PERRY,  RYAN, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Health -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to the display of
  tobacco products in pharmacies

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

  Section  1. Article 13-F of the public health law is amended by adding
a new section 1399-ccc to read as follows:
  S 1399-CCC. REGULATIONS ON PHARMACIES  SELLING  TOBACCO.  1.  LICENSED
RETAIL  PHARMACIES  AND  OTHER RETAIL STORES WITH A LICENSED PHARMACY ON
THE PREMISES, THAT SELL TOBACCO  PRODUCTS  SHALL  ONLY  DISPLAY  TOBACCO
PRODUCTS  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TOBACCO, CIGARETTES AND CIGARS,
IN A MANNER SO THAT DISPLAY OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS IS COVERED OUT  OF  VIEW
FROM  THE PUBLIC. SUCH COVERING SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE MANAGEMENT OF
THE RETAIL STORE.
  2. THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO BOTH  CHAIN  AND  NON-CHAIN  PHARMACIES
THAT OPERATE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13906-06-4

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