Assembly Bill A5061

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Bans smoking in adult care facilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A5061 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4496
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-o, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A5061, S4496

2017-A5061 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Bans smoking in adult care facilities.

2017-A5061 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5061
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SIMON, PAULIN, DINOWITZ, JAFFEE, GALEF
   --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. COOK, B. MILLER -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to banning smoking in
   adult care facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  n  of  subdivision  1 of section 1399-o of the
 public health law, as amended by chapter 389 of the  laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   n. general hospitals and residential health care facilities as defined
 in  article  twenty-eight  of this chapter, ADULT CARE FACILITIES ESTAB-
 LISHED OR CERTIFIED UNDER TITLE TWO  OF  ARTICLE  SEVEN  OF  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES  LAW,  COMMUNITY  MENTAL  HEALTH  RESIDENCES  ESTABLISHED UNDER
 SECTION 41.44 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW, FACILITIES WHERE DAY  TREATMENT
 PROGRAMS  ARE PROVIDED, and other health care facilities licensed by the
 state in which persons reside[; provided, however, that  the  provisions
 of  this  subdivision shall not prohibit smoking by patients in separate
 enclosed rooms of residential health care facilities, adult care facili-
 ties established or certified under title two of article  seven  of  the
 social  services  law,  community  mental  health residences established
 under section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, or facilities  where  day
 treatment  programs  are provided, which are designated as smoking rooms
 for patients of such facilities or programs];
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07826-01-7

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