Prohibits the sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school; defines "flavored smokeless tobacco"; authorizes the commissioner to impose a civil penalty for violations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5613
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the
sale of flavored smokeless tobacco within five hundred feet of a
public or private elementary or secondary school
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 1399-cc-1 to read as follows:
3 § 1399-cc-1. Sale of flavored smokeless tobacco; restrictions. 1. No
4 flavored smokeless tobacco product or component may be sold within five
5 hundred feet of any public or private elementary or secondary school.
6 For purposes of this subdivision, the term "flavored smokeless tobacco"
7 shall mean any smokeless tobacco product containing, made of, or derived
8 from tobacco or nicotine that is intended to be placed by the consumer
9 in an oral cavity and contains a constituent that imparts a characteriz-
10 ing flavor. For the purposes of this section, the term "characterizing
11 flavor" shall mean a distinguishable taste or aroma, other than the
12 taste or aroma of tobacco, imparted either prior to or during consump-
13 tion of a tobacco product, including but not limited to, tastes or
14 aromas relating to any fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa,
15 dessert, alcoholic beverage, mint, wintergreen, herb, spice, or menthol,
16 or any concept flavor that imparts a taste or aroma that is distinguish-
17 able from tobacco flavor but may not relate to any particular known
18 flavor.
19 2. The measurements in subdivision one of this section are to be taken
20 in straight lines from the nearest point of the property line of the
21 parcel on which the school is located to the nearest point of the prop-
22 erty line of the parcel on which the business is located.
23 3. Violations of this section shall be enforced pursuant to section
24 thirteen hundred ninety-nine-ff of this article, except that any person
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 may submit a complaint to an enforcement officer reporting that a
2 violation of this section has occurred.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
4 it shall have become a law.
