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Assembly Bill A9473

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to enforcement of provisions regarding regulation of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes, and smoking paraphernalia

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2025-A9473 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8754
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Chap of 2025 (as proposed in S.5624 & A.8468)

2025-A9473 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the effective date of a 2025 chapter relating to enforcement of provisions regarding regulation of tobacco products, herbal cigarettes, and smoking paraphernalia.

2025-A9473 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9473
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health
   law relating to defining enforcement officers in a city with  a  popu-
   lation  of  one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco
   products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia, as proposed  in
   legislative  bills  numbers  S.  5624  and A. 8468, in relation to the
   effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  2  of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the
 public health law relating to defining enforcement officers  in  a  city
 with  a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating
 tobacco  products,  herbal  cigarettes  and  smoking  paraphernalia,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5624 and A. 8468, is amended to
 read as follows:
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take effect [immediately] SIX MONTHS AFTER IT
 SHALL HAVE BECOME A LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10319-02-6

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