New York Assembly Bill A05707 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5707 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, 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 enrolled in secondary education who is found to be using or 18 in possession of an electronic cigarette or vapor product while less 19 than twenty-one years of age and inform them of such person's use or 20 possession of an electronic cigarette or vapor product. Such person and 21 the parents and/or guardians of such person shall be required to attend 22 the electronic cigarette or vapor product prevention, control and aware- 23 ness program established under subdivision one of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09925-01-5 
 A. 5707 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 2 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 3 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 4 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 5 on or before such effective date.