Bill Text: NY A08330 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting smoking in and on the premises of public housing accommodations; provides that by January 1, 2020, all public housing accommodations shall be classified as smoke-free.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - print number 8330a [A08330 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08330-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8330--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     August 5, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, KEARNS, JAFFEE, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.   KOLB, MONTESANO -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Housing  --  recommitted to the Committee on Housing in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the public housing law, in relation to prohibiting smok-
          ing on the premises of public housing units
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The public housing law is amended by adding a new section
     2  223-c to read as follows:
     3    § 223-c. Prohibition on smoking. 1. Smoking shall be prohibited in  or
     4  on  the  grounds  of  any public housing accommodation classified by the
     5  commissioner as a smoke-free building.  The  commissioner  shall  ensure
     6  that  at  least  fifty  percent  of all public housing accommodations in
     7  existence as of the effective date of this section shall  be  classified
     8  as smoke-free buildings.
     9    2.  Any  public  housing accommodation constructed after the effective
    10  date of this section shall be classified as a smoke-free building. Smok-
    11  ing shall be prohibited in and on the grounds of any of  these  accommo-
    12  dations.
    13    3.  Any vacancies in a public housing unit that has been classified as
    14  a smoking unit shall be reclassified as a smoke-free unit prior  to  any
    15  new tenant taking occupancy. Smoking shall be prohibited in any of these
    16  units on and after the date of such new occupancy.
    17    4. On January first, two thousand twenty, the commissioner shall clas-
    18  sify  all public housing accommodations as smoke-free buildings. Smoking
    19  shall be prohibited in and on the grounds of all public housing accommo-
    20  dations on and after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04337-03-6
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     1    5. For purposes of this section, the term smoking shall  include,  but
     2  not  be limited to, the smoking or use of: (a) cigarettes, cigars, pipes
     3  or any other handheld device used for the smoking of  tobacco  products;
     4  and  (b)  electronic  cigarettes,  e-cigarettes, any electronic nicotine
     5  delivery system or any other handheld electronic device that vaporizes a
     6  flavored liquid.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.