What's happening
This bill prohibits the sale or distribution of refillable electronic liquids for e-cigarettes, with exceptions for prefilled, sealed cartridges and certain manufacturers.
Why it matters
Limits consumer and retailer access to bulk or refillable e-liquids, potentially reducing the ability to customize nicotine strengths or flavors, which may affect users who rely on refillable systems for smoking cessation or harm reduction.
Shifts the market toward prefilled, sealed cartridges, potentially consolidating sales among larger manufacturers and diminishing opportunities for small businesses and vape shops that focus on refillable products.
Grants the state health commissioner discretion to exempt registered in-state e-liquid manufacturers, which could create a pathway for local businesses to remain operational under certain conditions, but introduces regulatory uncertainty.
Imposes civil penalties for violations, signaling a stricter enforcement environment and potentially deterring illegal or unregulated sales, which may impact public health and the informal market.
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Ban Refillable Vape Liquids
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1636
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the provision of any quantity of an electronic liquid
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 391-x to read as follows:
§ 391-x. Electronic liquids or e-liquids; prohibition. 1. No person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company or other entity shall sell, offer to sell or give away, for either retail, wholesale or promotional purposes, an electronic liquid or e-liquid used to refill an electronic cigarette or cartridge. Provided, however, that the commissioner of health may exempt a registered in-state manufacturer of e-liquids from the provision of this section.
2. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, limited liability company or other entity that violates the provisions of subdivision one of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each separate violation of such subdivision, to be recovered by any enforcement authority designated by a municipality or political subdivision in which such violation occurred.
3. For the purposes of this section, "liquid nicotine", "electronic liquid" or "e-liquid" means a liquid composed of nicotine and other chemicals, and which is sold as a product that may be used in an electronic cigarette, as defined by subdivision thirteen of section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public health law.
4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any liquid nicotine, electronic liquid or e-liquid that is contained in a prefilled, sealed cartridge that is sold, marketed or intended for use in an electronic cigarette, as defined by subdivision thirteen of section thirteen
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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hundred ninety-nine-aa of the public health law, provided that such cartridge is prefilled and sealed by the manufacturer, and not intended to be opened by the consumer.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
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