Senate Bill S3978

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Increases the age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years old to 21 years old

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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-S3978 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A273
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1399-aa, 1399-bb, 1399-cc, 1399-dd, 1399-ff, 1399-ll & 1399-mm, Pub Health L; amd §260.21, Pen L; amd §17-714, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S4863, A7105
2015-2016: S3456, A237
2019-2020: S2833, A558

2017-S3978 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the age to purchase tobacco products from 18 years old to 21 years old.

2017-S3978 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3978 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3978
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, the penal law and the administra-
   tive code of the city of New  York,  in  relation  to  increasing  the
   purchasing age for tobacco products from eighteen to twenty-one

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 4 of section 1399-aa of the public health law,
 as added by chapter 799 of the laws of  1992,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. "Private club" means an organization with no more than an insignif-
 icant  portion  of  its  membership comprised of people under the age of
 [eighteen] TWENTY-ONE years that regularly receives dues and/or payments
 from its members for the use of space, facilities and services.
   § 2. Paragraphs (b), (c) and (f) of subdivision 2 of  section  1399-bb
 of  the public health law, as amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2003,
 are amended to read as follows:
   (b) conventions and trade shows; provided  that  the  distribution  is
 confined  to  designated areas generally accessible only to persons over
 the age of [eighteen] TWENTY-ONE;
   (c) events sponsored by  tobacco  or  herbal  cigarette  manufacturers
 provided that the distribution is confined to designated areas generally
 accessible only to persons over the age of [eighteen] TWENTY-ONE;
   (f)  factories  as  defined  in  subdivision  nine of section thirteen
 hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article and construction sites;  provided
 that the distribution is confined to designated areas generally accessi-
 ble only to persons over the age of [eighteen] TWENTY-ONE.
   §  3.  Subdivision  4  of section 1399-bb of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 508 of the laws  of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01709-01-7
              

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