Bill Text: NY S06255 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-10 - PRINT NUMBER 6255A [S06255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06255-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6255--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 9, 2014
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       Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  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.
                                                                  LBD11823-04-4