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Senate Bill S4699

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter

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2025-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-cc, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8162
2021-2022: S3904
2023-2024: S3356

2025-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter.

2025-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4699 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4699
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  elec-
   tronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specif-
   ic  locations  where  only persons of at least twenty-one years of age
   are allowed to enter
 
   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  and  a  new
 subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
   7.  No  person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
 herbal cigarettes, [liquid nicotine,] OR  shisha  [or  electronic  ciga-
 rettes]  are  sold  or  offered  for sale shall sell, permit to be sold,
 offer for sale or display for sale any  tobacco  product,  herbal  ciga-
 rettes,  [liquid  nicotine,]  OR 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 subdi-
 vision 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.
   8.  NO PERSON OPERATING A PLACE OF BUSINESS WHEREIN LIQUID NICOTINE OR
 ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES ARE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE SHALL SELL, PERMIT TO
 BE SOLD, OFFER FOR SALE OR DISPLAY FOR SALE ANY LIQUID NICOTINE OR ELEC-
 TRONIC CIGARETTES UNLESS SUCH PLACE OF BUSINESS  IS  A  PLACE  TO  WHICH
 ADMISSION IS RESTRICTED TO PERSONS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09387-01-5

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