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Assembly Bill A5582A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program

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2023-A5582 - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-ii-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10547
2025-2026: A5707

2023-A5582 - Summary

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program.

2023-A5582 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5582
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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 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  CIGA-
 RETTE  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  AWARENESS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
 UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06710-01-3
 A. 5582                             2

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2023-A5582A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-ii-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10547
2025-2026: A5707

2023-A5582A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program.

2023-A5582A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5582--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06710-02-3

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