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NY A04999
Bill
Status
2/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn
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AI Summary
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Prohibits all retail sales of tobacco products with characterizing flavors, including fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, mint, wintergreen, menthol, and any other distinguishable non-tobacco taste or aroma
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Bans the sale of accessories that impart flavored characteristics to tobacco products
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Imposes civil fines of up to $500 per violation for any licensed tobacco retailer, business, or entity that sells flavored tobacco products
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Explicitly prohibits law enforcement from stopping, questioning, searching, or arresting individuals for possession, consumption, or purchase of flavored tobacco products
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law, with authority for immediate rulemaking to implement the ban
Legislative Description
Prohibits the retail sale of flavored tobacco products and accessories; imposes a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each infraction.
Last Action
referred to health
1/7/2026