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A00076 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           76
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF,
          LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
        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 12 and 13 to read as follows:
     3    12. "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    13. "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 6 to read as follows:
    12    6. 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 are 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.
                                                                   LBD01965-01-9
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