S 5624: Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia; provides that an enforcement officer for purposes of section 1399-ee of the public health law shall be the office of administrative trials and hearings.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5624 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to defining enforce- ment officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1399-aa of the public health law, 2 as amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. "Enforcement officer" means the enforcement officer designated 5 pursuant to article thirteen-E of this chapter to enforce such article 6 and hold hearings pursuant thereto; provided that in a city with a popu- 7 lation of more than one million it shall also mean an officer or employ- 8 ee or any agency of such city that is authorized to enforce any local 9 law of such city related to the regulation of the sale of tobacco 10 products to minors, or for the purposes of section thirteen hundred 11 ninety-nine-ee of this article, the office of administrative trials and 12 hearings of such city. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10319-01-5