What's happening
This bill bans smoking in adult care facilities and removes exemptions that allowed smoking rooms in certain health care and treatment facilities.
Why it matters
Removes previously allowed indoor smoking rooms. in adult care, mental health, and certain treatment facilities, meaning residents and patients will no longer have access to designated smoking areas inside these settings.
Aims to improve indoor air quality and reduce secondhand smoke exposure. for vulnerable populations—such as the elderly, people with disabilities, and those in residential health care or mental health programs—who may be especially sensitive to smoke-related health risks.
Signals a shift in public health priorities. by prioritizing smoke-free environments over individual smoking rights within care settings, potentially encouraging cessation and aligning with broader anti-smoking efforts statewide.
May impact facility operations and resident routines,. requiring changes in how facilities accommodate smokers (potentially moving all smoking to outdoors or off-premises entirely) and possibly affecting resident satisfaction or admissions policies.
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Who cares
Adult care facility operators and residents
The bill would explicitly include these facilities in the smoking and vaping prohibition and eliminate the exception for designated patient smoking and vaping rooms.
Residential health care facilities and their patients
The bill would remove the exception allowing patients to smoke and vape in separate enclosed rooms designated for that purpose.
Community mental health residences and their residents
The bill would explicitly include these residences in the prohibition and eliminate their designated patient smoking and vaping room exception.
Day treatment program providers and patients
The bill would explicitly cover facilities where these programs operate and remove the exception for designated patient smoking and vaping rooms.
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Ban Smoking in Adult Homes
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Sponsors
7 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to health
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Ban Smoking in Adult Homes
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor David Carlucci
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3069
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, SIMON, PAULIN, DINOWITZ, JAFFEE, GALEF, GLICK, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, B. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to banning smoking in adult care facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph n of subdivision 1 of section 1399-o of the public health law, as amended by chapter 335 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
n. general hospitals and residential health care facilities as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter, adult care facilities established or certified under title two of article seven of the social services law, community mental health residences established under section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, facilities where day treatment programs are provided, and other health care facilities licensed by the state in which persons reside[; provided, however, that the provisions of this subdivision shall not prohibit smoking and vaping by patients in separate enclosed rooms of residential health care facilities, adult care facilities established or certified under title two of article seven of the social services law, community mental health residences established under section 41.44 of the mental hygiene law, or facilities where day treatment programs are provided, which are designated as smoking and vaping rooms for patients of such facilities or programs];
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06164-01-9
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