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Assembly Bill A223

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the labeling of electronic cigarette products and packaging

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2023-A223 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-cc, Pub Health L; add §398-g, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8630
2021-2022: A647
2025-2026: A884

2023-A223 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that every package containing an electronic cigarette and the electronic cigarette itself, as defined in subdivision thirteen of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public health law, sold, offered for sale or otherwise distributed without charge within this state, shall be designed by the department of health and such package containing an electronic cigarette and the electronic cigarette itself shall include printed thereon or attached thereto a health warning and disclaimer label designed by the department of health.

2023-A223 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    223
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the general business  law,  in
   relation  to the labeling of electronic cigarette products and packag-
   ing

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 1399-cc of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   7.  No  person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
 herbal cigarettes, liquid nicotine, shisha or electronic cigarettes  are
 sold  or  offered for sale shall sell, permit to be sold, offer for sale
 or display for sale any tobacco product, herbal cigarettes, liquid nico-
 tine, shisha  or  electronic  cigarettes  in  any  manner,  unless  such
 products  and  cigarettes are stored for sale (a) behind a counter in an
 area accessible only to the personnel of such  business,  or  (b)  in  a
 locked container; provided, however, such restriction shall not apply to
 tobacco  businesses, as defined in subdivision eight of section thirteen
 hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article, and to places to which admission
 is restricted to persons twenty-one years of age or  older.    PROVIDED,
 FURTHER, THAT, IN THE CASE OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, THE PRODUCT AND THE
 PACKAGES  THEREOF  SHALL  COMPLY  WITH  THE  PROVISIONS OF SECTION THREE
 HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT-G OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW.
   § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 398-g
 to read as follows:
   § 398-G. ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE PRODUCT AND PACKAGE LABELING. 1.   EVERY
 PACKAGE  CONTAINING AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE AND THE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE
 ITSELF, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION THIRTEEN OF SECTION  THIRTEEN  HUNDRED
 NINETY-NINE-AA  OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW,  SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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