Assembly Bill A3520

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter

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  • 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-A3520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1399-cc, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A5700

2023-A3520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires electronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specific locations where only persons of at least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter.

2023-A3520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3520
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  elec-
   tronic cigarettes and e-liquid products to be sold in separate specif-
   ic  locations  where  only persons of at least twenty-one years of age
   are allowed to enter

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 1399-cc of the public health law,
 as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
   7.  No  person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
 herbal cigarettes, [liquid nicotine,] OR  shisha  [or  electronic  ciga-
 rettes]  are  sold  or  offered  for sale shall sell, permit to be sold,
 offer for sale or display for sale any  tobacco  product,  herbal  ciga-
 rettes,  [liquid  nicotine,]  OR shisha [or electronic cigarettes in any
 manner], unless such products and cigarettes are  stored  for  sale  (a)
 behind  a  counter  in  an area accessible only to the personnel of such
 business,  or  (b)  in  a  locked  container;  provided,  however,  such
 restriction  shall not apply to tobacco businesses, as defined in subdi-
 vision eight of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of this article,
 and to places to which admission is  restricted  to  persons  twenty-one
 years of age or older.
   8.  NO PERSON OPERATING A PLACE OF BUSINESS WHEREIN LIQUID NICOTINE OR
 ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES ARE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE SHALL SELL, PERMIT TO
 BE SOLD, OFFER FOR SALE OR DISPLAY FOR SALE ANY LIQUID NICOTINE OR ELEC-
 TRONIC CIGARETTES UNLESS SUCH PLACE OF BUSINESS  IS  A  PLACE  TO  WHICH
 ADMISSION IS RESTRICTED TO PERSONS TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07411-01-3

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