Bill Text: NY S06704 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to banning electronic cigarettes on school grounds.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-13 - PRINT NUMBER 6704A [S06704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06704-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6704--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 3, 2014
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       Introduced by Sens. FLANAGAN, LAVALLE, MARTINS -- read twice and ordered
         printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to the ban of elec-
         tronic cigarettes on school grounds
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 1399-o of the public health law,
    2  as added by chapter 449 of the laws of  2012,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  (A)  Smoking,  WHICH  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ALSO
    5  INCLUDE THE SMOKING OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, shall not be permitted and
    6  no person shall smoke within one hundred feet of the entrances, exits or
    7  outdoor areas of any public or private elementary or secondary  schools;
    8  provided,  however,  that  the  provisions of this subdivision shall not
    9  apply to smoking in a residence, or within the  real  property  boundary
   10  lines of such residential real property. The provisions of section thir-
   11  teen  hundred  ninety-nine-p  of  this  article  shall not apply to this
   12  subdivision.
   13    (B) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION,  "ELECTRONIC  CIGARETTES"  SHALL
   14  INCLUDE  ANY DEVICE THAT SIMULATES THE ACT OF SMOKING BUT PRODUCES WATER
   15  VAPOR INSTEAD OF SMOKE. SUCH ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES  SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
   16  NOT  BE  LIMITED TO, E-CIGARETTES, HOOKAH PENS, OR VAPING PENS. IT SHALL
   17  NOT BE NECESSARY THAT AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE CONTAIN NICOTINE.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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