Senate Bill S137

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to a state tax on vapor products

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee


  • 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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2019-S137 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1339-n, Pub Health L; amd §471-b, Tax L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S7335

2019-S137 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes a tax on vapor products at a rate of twenty-five cents per fluid milliliter, or a part thereof, of a vapor product; defines terms.

2019-S137 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S137 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    137
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the tax law,  in  relation  to
   imposing a tax on vapor products

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 1399-n of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  13  of  the laws of 2003, is amended and a new
 subdivision 9-a is added to read as follows:
   8. "Smoking" means the burning of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe  or
 any  other matter or substance which contains tobacco, THE BURNING OF AN
 HERBAL CIGARETTE OR THE USE OF A VAPOR PRODUCT.
   9-A. "VAPOR PRODUCT" MEANS ANY NONCOMBUSTIBLE LIQUID OR  GEL,  REGARD-
 LESS  OF  THE  PRESENCE OF NICOTINE THEREIN, THAT IS MANUFACTURED INTO A
 FINISHED PRODUCT FOR USE IN AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE,  ELECTRONIC  CIGAR,
 ELECTRONIC  CIGARILLO,  ELECTRONIC PIPE, VAPING PEN, HOOKAH PEN OR OTHER
 SIMILAR DEVICE. "VAPOR PRODUCT" SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY  PRODUCT  APPROVED
 BY  THE  UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AS A DRUG OR MEDICAL
 DEVICE.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 471-b of  the  tax  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D)  THE STATE SHALL IMPOSE A TAX ON VAPOR PRODUCTS AT A RATE OF TWEN-
 TY-FIVE CENTS PER FLUID MILLILITER, OR PART THEREOF, OF THE VAPOR  PROD-
 UCT.  ALL  INVOICES FOR VAPOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY DISTRIBUTORS AND WHOLE-
 SALERS SHALL STATE THE AMOUNT OF VAPOR PRODUCT IN MILLILITERS.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD05336-01-9
              

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