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Senate Bill S5219

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits the vending machine sale of tobacco products within 350 feet of a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship

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2021-S5219 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-dd, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1581
2011-2012: S2102, S6198
2013-2014: S3222
2015-2016: S2790
2017-2018: S2678
2019-2020: S4710
2023-2024: S6395
2025-2026: S4290

2021-S5219 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the operation of a vending machine which dispenses tobacco products unless the machine is located more than three hundred fifty feet of a building occupied exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.

2021-S5219 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5219 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5219
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  placement  of
   tobacco  vending  machines near schools, churches, synagogues or other
   places of worship

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1399-dd  of the public health law, as amended by
 chapter 448 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision (d) as amended by  chap-
 ter 100 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1399-dd.  Sale of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes or electronic
 cigarettes in vending machines. No person, firm, partnership, company or
 corporation shall operate a  vending  machine  which  dispenses  tobacco
 products, herbal cigarettes or electronic cigarettes unless such machine
 is  located: (a) in a bar as defined in subdivision one of section thir-
 teen hundred ninety-nine-n of this chapter, or the bar area  of  a  food
 service establishment with a valid, on-premises full liquor license; (b)
 in  a  private club; (c) in a tobacco business as defined in subdivision
 eight of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article; or (d)
 in a place of employment which has an insignificant portion of its regu-
 lar workforce comprised of people under the age of twenty-one years  and
 only  in  such  locations that are not accessible to the general public;
 provided, however, that in such locations the vending machine is located
 in plain view and under the direct supervision and control of the person
 in charge of the location or his or her designated  agent  or  employee;
 PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH VENDING MACHINE SHALL BE WITHIN
 THREE HUNDRED FIFTY FEET OF A BUILDING OCCUPIED EXCLUSIVELY AS A SCHOOL,
 CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE OR OTHER PLACE OF WORSHIP.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09281-01-1

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