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Jan 03, 2018 | referred to health |
Feb 06, 2017 | referred to health |
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Jo Anne Simon
Amy Paulin
Jeffrey Dinowitz
Ellen C. Jaffee
Multi-Sponsors
Vivian Cook
Brian D. Miller
A5061 (ACTIVE) - Details
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