Assembly Bill A337

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits smoking tobacco in motor vehicles where minors less than 18 years of age are passengers in such vehicles; traffic infraction

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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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2025-A337 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1229-e, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5038

2025-A337 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits smoking tobacco in motor vehicles where a minor less than 18 years of age is a passenger in such vehicle; provides for rebuttable presumption.

2025-A337 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    337
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting
   smoking tobacco in motor vehicles where a minor is a passenger

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 1229-e to read as follows:
   § 1229-E. SMOKING IN MOTOR VEHICLES. 1. SMOKING  IN  A  MOTOR  VEHICLE
 LOCATED  UPON  A  PUBLIC  HIGHWAY OR RIGHT-OF-WAY PUBLIC HIGHWAY WHERE A
 MINOR UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE IS  A  PASSENGER  IS  PROHIBITED.  ANY
 OPERATOR  OR  PASSENGER  TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER VIOLATING THIS
 SECTION SHALL BE GUILTY OF A TRAFFIC INFRACTION.
   2. A PERSON WHO HOLDS A LIGHTED CIGAR, CIGARETTE, PIPE  OR  ANY  OTHER
 MATTER OR SUBSTANCE WHICH CONTAINS TOBACCO TO, OR IN THE IMMEDIATE PROX-
 IMITY  OF  THEIR MOUTH, WHILE IN SUCH VEHICLE IS PRESUMED TO BE ENGAGING
 IN SMOKING WITHIN THE MEANING OF THIS SECTION.  THE  PRESUMPTION  ESTAB-
 LISHED  BY  THIS  SUBDIVISION IS REBUTTABLE BY EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT THE
 PERSON WAS NOT SMOKING A LIGHTED CIGAR, CIGARETTE, PIPE OR OTHER  MATTER
 OR SUBSTANCE WHICH CONTAINS TOBACCO.
   3.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION  "SMOKING" MEANS THE BURNING OF A
 LIGHTED CIGAR, CIGARETTE, PIPE OR ANY OTHER MATTER  OR  SUBSTANCE  WHICH
 CONTAINS TOBACCO.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00611-01-5

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