Assembly Bill A3652

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to standardized vaping and e-cigarette school guidelines

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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-A3652 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S551
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A9661, S7105

2021-A3652 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that the commissioner of education and the commissioner of public health shall develop standardized vaping and e-cigarette school guidelines to assist school districts when they are developing their own policies.

2021-A3652 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3652
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to creating  standardized
   vaping and e-cigarette school guidelines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The legislature hereby  finds  and  declares  the  reported
 incidents  of e-cigarettes use referred to as "vaping" among youth lead-
 ing to nicotine addiction, serious illness and  death  to  be  a  public
 health  crisis  that  is growing in prevalence in middle grades and high
 schools throughout the state. The rates  of  adolescents  and  youth  in
 grades  eight  through  twelve using vaping products to consume nicotine
 has doubled in recent years with twenty-five percent of twelfth graders,
 twenty percent of tenth graders  and  nine  percent  of  eighth  graders
 reporting vaping. The New York state department of health has reported a
 one hundred sixty percent increase in four years of high school students
 using  e-cigarettes.  The  use  of  e-cigarettes  through vaping devices
 delivers addictive nicotine  in  more  powerful,  higher  doses  leading
 adolescents  to  long-term health consequences, illnesses, related prob-
 lems and possibly death. Public school officials  throughout  the  state
 are grappling with monitoring and detecting vaping use on school proper-
 ty,  posing  an  increasing  demand on school health, guidance and pupil
 support personnel and additional administrative responsibilities result-
 ing from the surge in youth e-cigarette usage.  There is no debate  that
 use  of  e-cigarettes  through vaping devices is harmful to young people
 with detrimental lifelong health consequences.  Therefore, the  legisla-
 ture  finds that the appropriate state agencies overseeing education and
 health shall  work  collaboratively  to  develop  guidelines  to  assist
 schools with developing policies and procedures and access any potential
 related  funding  to  discourage  and combat the rise in e-cigarette use
 among youth.

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

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