STATE OF NEW YORK
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10547
IN ASSEMBLY
July 6, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring certain
persons attend the electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, aware-
ness and control program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1399-ii-1 of the public health law, as added by
2 section 11 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 § 1399-ii-1. Electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, awareness and
5 control program. 1. The commissioner shall, in consultation and collab-
6 oration with the commissioner of education, establish and develop an
7 electronic cigarette and vaping prevention, control and awareness
8 program within the department. Such program shall be designed to educate
9 students, parents and school personnel about the health risks associated
10 with vapor product use and control measures to reduce the prevalence of
11 vaping, particularly among persons less than twenty-one years of age.
12 Such program shall include, but not be limited to, the creation of age-
13 appropriate instructional tools and materials that may be used by all
14 schools, and marketing and advertising materials to discourage electron-
15 ic cigarette use.
16 2. The department shall contact the parents and/or guardians of any
17 such person who is found to be using or in possession of an electronic
18 cigarette or vapor product while less than twenty-one years of age and
19 inform them of such person's use or possession of an electronic ciga-
20 rette or vapor product. Such person and the parents and/or guardians of
21 such person shall be required to attend the electronic cigarette or
22 vapor product prevention, control and awareness program established
23 under subdivision one of this section.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
25 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
26 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
27 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
28 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14321-01-2
