Bill Text: NY A08190 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8190 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Includes "electronic cigarettes" within the definition of smoking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-28 - print number 8190a [A08190 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08190-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8190--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    October 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. GALEF, OTIS, JAFFEE, MORELLE -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A.  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the  Committee
         on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
         Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to including elec-
         tronic cigarettes within the definition of smoking
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 8 of section 1399-n of the public health law,
    2  as amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    8.  "Smoking"  means  the burning of a lighted cigar, cigarette, ELEC-
    5  TRONIC CIGARETTE, pipe or any other matter or substance  which  contains
    6  tobacco.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11823-03-4