Assembly Bill A10613

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program

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Current 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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2023-A10613 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-ii-1, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10547

2023-A10613 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and control program.

2023-A10613 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10613
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages,
   K. Brown) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
   persons  attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, aware-
   ness and control program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1399-ii-1  of the public health law, as added by
 section 11 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   § 1399-ii-1. Electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and
 control  program. 1. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collab-
 oration with the commissioner of education,  establish  and  develop  an
 electronic  cigarette  and  vaping  prevention,  control  and  awareness
 program within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate
 students, parents and school personnel about the health risks associated
 with vapor product use and control measures to reduce the prevalence  of
 vaping,  particularly  among  persons less than twenty-one years of age.
 Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the creation of  age-
 appropriate  instructional  tools  and materials that may be used by all
 schools, and marketing and advertising materials to discourage electron-
 ic cigarette use.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CONTACT THE PARENTS AND/OR  GUARDIANS  OF  ANY
 SUCH  PERSON ENROLLED IN SECONDARY EDUCATION WHO IS FOUND TO BE USING OR
 IN POSSESSION OF AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE OR  VAPOR  PRODUCT  WHILE  LESS
 THAN  TWENTY-ONE  YEARS  OF  AGE AND INFORM THEM OF SUCH PERSON'S USE OR
 POSSESSION OF AN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE OR VAPOR PRODUCT. SUCH PERSON  AND
 THE  PARENTS AND/OR GUARDIANS OF SUCH PERSON SHALL BE REQUIRED TO ATTEND
 THE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE OR VAPOR PRODUCT PREVENTION, CONTROL AND AWARE-
 NESS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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