Bill Text: NY S05788 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the regulation of smoking and vaping on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public colleges and universities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05788 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5788

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 the regulation  of
          smoking  and  vaping  on the grounds and other outdoor areas of public
          colleges and universities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  b  of  subdivision 2 of section 1399-ii of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 1999, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (b) School-based programs, including those  located  at  colleges  and
     5  universities, to prevent and reduce tobacco use;
     6    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  1399-o of the public health law is
     7  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
     8    c. on the grounds or other outdoor areas  of  any  public  college  or
     9  university that are owned, leased or operated by such college or univer-
    10  sity.
    11    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11718-01-9