Senate Bill S551

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to standardized vaping and e-cigarette school guidelines

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education 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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2021-S551 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3652
Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S7105, A9661

2021-S551 (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-S551 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    551
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, JACKSON, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
   tion
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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