Assembly Bill A1870

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits smoking within fifty feet of all entrances to state office buildings and restricts smoking outside buildings with indoor smoking restrictions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§1399-n & 1399-o, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A577
2011-2012: A184
2013-2014: A1679
2015-2016: A1732
2017-2018: A857
2019-2020: A76

2021-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits smoking within fifty feet of all entrances to state office buildings and restricts smoking outside buildings with indoor smoking restrictions; sets forth definitions of state office and state agency.

2021-A1870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1870
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting smok-
   ing within fifty feet of all entrances to certain buildings
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1399-n  of  the  public health law is amended by
 adding two new subdivisions 12 and 13 to read as follows:
   12. "STATE OFFICE" MEANS ANY BUILDING OR FACILITY IN THE STATE WHEREIN
 ONE HUNDRED OR MORE EMPLOYEES, IN AGGREGATE, OF  ANY  STATE  AGENCY  ARE
 LOCATED WHETHER OR NOT SUCH OFFICE BUILDING OR FACILITY IS OWNED, RENTED
 OR LEASED BY THE STATE.
   13.  "STATE AGENCY" MEANS ANY DEPARTMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE, ANY BUREAU,
 COMMISSION, AGENCY, BOARD OR OTHER AGENCY, ANY PUBLIC AUTHORITY, AND THE
 JUDICIARY AND THE LEGISLATURE.
   § 2. Section 1399-o of the public health law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  SMOKING  SHALL  NOT  BE PERMITTED AND NO PERSON SHALL SMOKE IN THE
 OUTSIDE AREA WITHIN FIFTY FEET OF AN ENTRANCE TO A  BUILDING  CONTAINING
 ONE  OR  MORE  OF  THE  INDOOR  AREAS  LISTED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION, OR IN THE OUTSIDE AREA WITHIN FIFTY FEET OF  ANY  STATE  OFFICE
 BUILDING USED FOR ANY STATE AGENCY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed  to
 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01266-01-1

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