New York S 1915: Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products and changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products

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S01915 Summary:

BILL NOS01915 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01663

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§1399-aa & 1399-gg, Pub Health L; amd §§470 & 471-b, Tax L

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Amends certain definitions relating to tobacco products; changes the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for tobacco products.

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BILL NOS01915 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1915

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the tax law, in relation to
 amending certain definitions relating to tobacco products; and to
 amend the public health law and the tax law, in relation to changing
 the minimum pack sizes for tobacco products and the tax amount for
 tobacco products

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1399-aa of the public health law,
 2 as amended by chapter 152 of the laws of 2004, is amended and a new
 3 subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
 4 5. "Tobacco products" means one or more cigarettes or cigars, bidis,
 5 chewing tobacco, loose tobacco, single-unit tobacco, powdered tobacco,
 6 nicotine water or any other tobacco products and also includes any other
 7 product containing tobacco that is intended or expected to be consumed
 8 except for any such product that has been approved by the U.S. Food and
 9 Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco use cessation product or for
 10 other medical purposes and is being marketed and sold solely for that
 11 approved purpose.
 12 19. "Cigarette" means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of
 13 tobacco or of any other substance, irrespective of size, shape, appear-
 14 ance, packaging, pricing, marketing or labeling and whether or not such
 15 tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other
 16 ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other
 17 substance or material but is not made in whole or in part of tobacco
 18 that is likely to be offered to, purchased by, or consumed by consumers
 19 as a cigarette, as defined above, including any roll for smoking
 20 containing tobacco wrapped in a substance containing tobacco that weighs
 21 no more than four and a half pounds per thousand unless it is wrapped in
 22 whole tobacco leaf and does not have an internal filter.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03557-01-5

 S. 1915 2

 1 § 2. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 2-a of section 470 of the tax law, subdivi-
 2 sions 1 and 2 as amended by chapter 728 of the laws of 2019 and subdi-
 3 vision 2-a as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 2008, are amended and
 4 two new subdivisions 2-c and 2-d are added to read as follows:
 5 1. "Cigarette." Any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco
 6 or of any other substance, irrespective of size [or], shape, appearance,
 7 packaging, pricing, marketing or labeling and whether or not such tobac-
 8 co or substance is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingre-
 9 dient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other
 10 substance or material but is not made in whole or in part of tobacco
 11 that is likely to be offered to, purchased by, or consumed by consumers
 12 as a cigarette, as defined above, including any roll for smoking
 13 containing tobacco wrapped in a substance containing tobacco that weighs
 14 no more than four and a half pounds per thousand unless it is wrapped in
 15 whole tobacco leaf and does not have an internal filter. "Cigarette"
 16 shall not include a research tobacco product.
 17 2. "Tobacco products." Any cigar, including a little cigar, or tobac-
 18 co, other than cigarettes, [intended for consumption by smoking, chew-
 19 ing, or as snuff] and also inclu