Bill Text: NY S00169 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Prohibits smoking within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or association library.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - SIGNED CHAP.420 [S00169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00169-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         169--B
            Cal. No. 368
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
          report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading -- again amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting  smok-
          ing within 100 feet of the entrances or exits of any public or associ-
          ation library
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1399-o of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. Smoking shall not be permitted and no person shall smoke within one
     4  hundred  feet  of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any public or
     5  association library as defined in subdivision two of section two hundred
     6  fifty-three of the education law; provided, however, that the provisions
     7  of this subdivision shall not apply to smoking in a residence, or within
     8  the real property boundary lines of such residential real property.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02150-05-8
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