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Senate Bill S3538

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the regulation of smoking and vaping on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public colleges and universities

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2021-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9576
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1399-ii & 1399-o, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5788, A8199
2023-2024: A1918

2021-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the regulation of smoking and vaping on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public colleges and universities.

2021-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3538 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3538
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the regulation  of
   smoking  and  vaping  on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public
   colleges and universities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 2 of section 1399-ii of the
 public health law, as amended by section 12 of part EE of chapter 56  of
 the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (b)  School-based  programs,  INCLUDING  THOSE LOCATED AT COLLEGES AND
 UNIVERSITIES, to prevent  and  reduce  tobacco  use  and  use  of  vapor
 products;
   §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  1399-o of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
   C. ON THE GROUNDS OR OTHER OUTDOOR AREAS  OF  ANY  PUBLIC  COLLEGE  OR
 UNIVERSITY THAT ARE OWNED, LEASED OR OPERATED BY SUCH COLLEGE OR UNIVER-
 SITY,  EXCEPT THAT THE RESTRICTIONS IN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY TO
 ANY OUTDOOR SPACES OR AREAS THAT  ARE  SHARED  BETWEEN  THE  COLLEGE  OR
 UNIVERSITY AND PRIVATE PARTIES PURSUANT TO A LEASE, OR TO SUCH SPACES OR
 AREAS  THAT  ARE  NOT UNDER THE FULL AND SOLE CONTROL OF SUCH COLLEGE OR
 UNIVERSITY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07625-01-1

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