Bill Text: NY A02547 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the sale of tobacco products over the internet; requires companies selling tobacco products over the internet to first send a form to individuals to sign stating that such individual is eighteen years of age or older and upon receipt of such form, the company may send the tobacco products if such person is over the requisite age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-07 - reported referred to codes [A02547 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02547-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2547
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 19, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Governmental Operations
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the sale of tobac-
         co products over the internet
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.   The public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  1399-dd-1 to read as follows:
    3    S 1399-DD-1. RETAIL SHIPMENT OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.   BEFORE  A  COMPANY
    4  MAY  SHIP  TOBACCO PRODUCTS TO AN INDIVIDUAL ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE SUCH
    5  PRODUCTS, OVER THE INTERNET OR OTHERWISE, SUCH COMPANY SHALL SEND A FORM
    6  TO THE INDIVIDUAL REQUESTING AN AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE THAT SUCH  INDIVID-
    7  UAL  IS  EIGHTEEN  YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. UPON RECEIPT OF SUCH FORM SUCH
    8  COMPANY MAY THEN SHIP THE TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   10  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03068-01-1