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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 20, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages,
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 ENROLLED IN SECONDARY EDUCATION 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 CIGARETTE 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 AWARE-
NESS 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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