Assembly Bill A6393

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands the drug take back act to include single-use and reusable electronic cigarettes

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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-A6393 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5209
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §290, Pub Health L

2023-A6393 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the drug take back act to include single-use and reusable electronic cigarettes.

2023-A6393 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6393
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to expanding the drug
   take back act to include single-use and reusable electronic cigarettes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 290 of the public health  law,  as
 added by chapter 120 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  "Covered  drug"  means any substance recognized as a drug under 21
 USC § 321(g)(1), as amended, and any regulations promulgated  thereunder
 that  is  sold,  offered  for  sale  or  dispensed in the state, whether
 directly or through a wholesaler, in any form including prescription and
 nonprescription  drugs,  drugs  in  medical  devices   and   combination
 products, brand and generic drugs and drugs for veterinary use; provided
 however, covered drug SHALL ADDITIONALLY INCLUDE SINGLE-USE AND REUSABLE
 ELECTRONIC  CIGARETTES  AS  DEFINED  IN SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-
 NINE-AA OF  THIS  CHAPTER;  PROVIDED  HOWEVER  COVERED  DRUG  shall  not
 include:  (a)  vitamins  or  supplements;  (b) herbal-based remedies and
 homeopathic drugs, products or remedies; (c) cosmetics,  soap  (with  or
 without  germicidal agents), laundry detergent, bleach, household clean-
 ing products, shampoos, sunscreens, toothpaste,  lip  balm,  antiperspi-
 rants or other personal care products that are regulated as both cosmet-
 ics and nonprescription drugs under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
 Act; (d) pet pesticide products contained in pet collars, powders, sham-
 poos,  topical  applications, or other forms; (e) drugs that are biolog-
 ical products as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of  section  sixty-
 eight  hundred  two  of  the  education  law if the manufacturer already
 provides a take  back  program;  (f)  drugs  for  which  a  manufacturer
 provides a take back program as part of a Federal Food and Drug Adminis-
 tration  managed  risk  evaluation  and mitigation strategy; (g) emptied
 injector products or emptied medical devices and their  component  parts
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09080-01-3

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