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This bill prohibits toxic metals in electronic cigarettes and requires a state study on the long-term health effects of their use.
Why it matters
Requires full disclosure of materials used in e-cigarette hardware. , increasing transparency and enabling regulatory oversight of product safety for consumers.
Empowers the Department of Health to set and update a list of banned toxic metals. (such as lead and manganese) in e-cigarettes, ensuring that regulations can keep pace with new scientific findings and emerging threats.
Mandates that no manufacturer or seller can produce or distribute e-cigarettes containing listed toxic metals. in any internal part, potentially reducing users’ exposure to hazardous substances linked to serious health risks.
Directs a state-led, comprehensive study of the long-term health effects of e-cigarette use. , which could shape future public health policy, inform educational campaigns, and guide regulation based on emerging evidence about the risks of inhaling heated aerosols.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8627
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 2, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the use of toxic metals in electronic cigarettes and requiring the department of health to study the long term health effects of electronic cigarette users
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1399-gg-1 to read as follows:
§ 1399-gg-1. Prohibition on the use of toxic metals in electronic cigarettes. 1. Any person engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or otherwise distributing electronic cigarettes or any agent or employee of such person shall disclose to the department the materials used in the hardware of the electronic cigarette.
2. The department shall establish a list of toxins which persons engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or otherwise distributing electronic cigarettes or any agent or employee of such person shall be prohibited from using in the manufacture of such electronic cigarettes. Such list shall include, but not be limited to, lead, manganese and other toxic metals. Such list shall be regularly updated and shall be published on the department's website.
3. No person engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or otherwise distributing electronic cigarettes or any agent or employee of such person shall manufacture, sell, or otherwise distribute electronic cigarettes that contain a toxin included on the list established by the department pursuant to subdivision two of this section, including in the heating element or any other internal part of such electronic cigarettes.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph (w) to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13850-01-9
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(w) direct the department to study the long term health effects on users of electronic cigarettes. Such study shall include data on the long term health effects of inhaling heated aerosols contained in electronic cigarettes.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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