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A01732 Summary:

BILL NOA01732A
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORCahill
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSRGalef, Lifton, Sepulveda
 
Add §§1399-n & 1399-o, Pub Health L
 
Prohibits smoking within fifty feet of all entrances to state office buildings and restricts smoking outside buildings with indoor smoking restrictions; sets forth definitions of state office and state agency.
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A01732 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1732--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 12, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF,
          LIFTON, SEPULVEDA -- 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 prohibiting  smok-
          ing within fifty feet of all entrances to certain buildings
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 1399-n of the  public  health  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding two new subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
     3    9.  "State office" means any building or facility in the state wherein
     4  one hundred or more employees, in aggregate, of  any  state  agency  are
     5  located whether or not such office building or facility is owned, rented
     6  or leased by the state.
     7    10.  "State agency" means any department of the executive, any bureau,
     8  commission, agency, board or other agency, any public authority, and the
     9  judiciary and the legislature.
    10    § 2. Section 1399-o of the public health law is amended  by  adding  a
    11  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    12    5.  Smoking  shall  not  be permitted and no person shall smoke in the
    13  outside area within fifty feet of an entrance to a  building  containing
    14  one  or  more  of  the  indoor  areas  listed in subdivision one of this
    15  section, or in the outside area within fifty feet of  any  state  office
    16  building used for any state agency.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    18  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    19  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    20  tation of this act on its effective date is authorized and  directed  to
    21  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06286-02-6
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