New York A 11509: Relates to restricting the sale of tobacco products and vapor products; repealer

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A11509 Summary:

BILL NOA11509 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRules (Paulin)

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Rpld §1399-bb sub 2, amd §§1399-bb, 1399-cc, 1399-dd, 1399-ll & 1399-mm, Pub Health L

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Restricts the sale of tobacco products and vapor products to persons born after December 31, 2007.

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BILL NOA11509 

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05/28/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11509

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 28, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to restricting the
 sale of tobacco products; and to repeal certain provisions of such law
 relating thereto

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1399-bb of the public health law
 2 is REPEALED.
 3 § 2. Subdivisions 4 and 5 of section 1399-bb of the public health law,
 4 as amended by section 4 of part EE of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020,
 5 are amended to read as follows:
 6 4. No retail dealer engaged in the business of selling or otherwise
 7 distributing electronic cigarettes or vapor products intended or reason-
 8 ably expected to be used with or for the consumption of nicotine for
 9 commercial purposes, or any agent or employee of such person, shall
 10 knowingly, in furtherance of such business, distribute without charge
 11 any electronic cigarettes to any individual [under twenty-one years of
 12 age] born after December thirty-first, two thousand seven.
 13 5. The distribution of tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, vapor
 14 products intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the
 15 consumption of nicotine, or herbal cigarettes pursuant to subdivision
 16 two of this section or the distribution without charge of electronic
 17 cigarettes, or vapor products intended or reasonably expected to be used
 18 with or for the consumption of nicotine, shall be made only to an indi-
 19 vidual who demonstrates, through (a) a driver's license or non-driver
 20 identification card issued by the commissioner of motor vehicles, the
 21 federal government, any United States territory, commonwealth, or
 22 possession, the District of Columbia, a state government within the
 23 United States, or a provincial government of the dominion of Canada, (b)
 24 a valid passport issued by the United States government or the govern-
 25 ment of any other country, or (c) an identification card issued by the
 26 armed forces of the United States, indicating that the individual [is at
 27 least twenty-one years of age. Such identification need not be required

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15979-02-6

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 1 of any individual who reasonably appears to be at least twenty-five
 2 years of age; provided, however, that such appearance shall not consti-
 3 tute a defense in any proceeding alleging the sale of a tobacco product,
 4 electronic cigarette, vapor product intended or reasonably expected to
 5 be used with or for the consumption of nicotine, or herbal cigarette or
 6 the distribution without charge of electronic cigarettes, or vapor
 7 products intended or reasonably expected to be used with or for the
 8 consumption of nicotine to an individual] was born after December thir-
 9 ty-first, two thousand seven.
 10 § 3. Subdivisions 2, 3 and 7 of section 1399-cc of the public health
 11 law, as amended by chapter 100 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read
 12 as follows:
 13 2. Any person operating a place of business wherein tobacco products,
 14 herbal cigarettes, liquid nicotine, shisha or electronic cigarettes, are
 15 sold or offered for sale is prohibited from selling such products,
 16 herbal cigarettes, liquid nicotine, shisha, electronic cigarettes or
 17 smoking paraphernalia to individuals [under twenty-one years of age]
 18 born after December thirty-first, two thousand seven, and