Assembly Bill A10547

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program

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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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2021-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-ii-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5582

2021-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program.

2021-A10547 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10547
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
   persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention,  aware-
   ness and control program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1399-ii-1 of the public health  law,  as  added  by
 section  11  of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 1399-ii-1. Electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and
 control program. 1. The commissioner shall, in consultation and  collab-
 oration  with  the  commissioner  of education, establish and develop an
 electronic  cigarette  and  vaping  prevention,  control  and  awareness
 program within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate
 students, parents and school personnel about the health risks associated
 with  vapor product use and control measures to reduce the prevalence of
 vaping, particularly among persons less than twenty-one  years  of  age.
 Such  program shall include, but not be limited to, the creation of age-
 appropriate instructional tools and materials that may be  used  by  all
 schools, and marketing and advertising materials to discourage electron-
 ic cigarette use.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL CONTACT THE PARENTS AND/OR GUARDIANS OF ANY
 SUCH PERSON WHO IS FOUND TO BE USING OR IN POSSESSION OF  AN  ELECTRONIC
 CIGARETTE  OR  VAPOR PRODUCT WHILE LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE AND
 INFORM THEM OF SUCH PERSON'S USE OR POSSESSION OF  AN  ELECTRONIC  CIGA-
 RETTE  OR VAPOR PRODUCT. SUCH PERSON AND THE PARENTS AND/OR GUARDIANS OF
 SUCH PERSON SHALL BE REQUIRED TO  ATTEND  THE  ELECTRONIC  CIGARETTE  OR
 VAPOR  PRODUCT  PREVENTION,  CONTROL  AND  AWARENESS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
 UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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