Bill > A5862

Introduced Session

This bill establishes a three-year pilot program under which the Department of Education will provide for the purchase and installation of electronic smoking device detectors in the restrooms of schools serving any of the grades 7 through 12 in selected school districts. The goal of the pilot program will be to study the effect of electronic smoking device detectors on deterring electronic smoking device use by students in schools. Under the bill, a school district that wants to participate in the pilot program is required to submit an application to the commissioner. The application is required to include, but need not be limited to: the number of schools serving any of the grades 7 through 12 in the school district; the number of students enrolled in each school; the number of restrooms accessible to students in each school; information on student use of electronic smoking devices in each school; and information on the rate of electronic smoking device use in the local community. The commissioner, in consultation with the Department of Health, will identify municipalities with the highest rate of persons under 18 years of age using electronic smoking devices. The commissioner will select up to 12 school districts for participation in the pilot program, and they will be, to the greatest extent possible, located in municipalities identified by the commissioner as having high rates of electronic smoking device use by persons under 18 years of age. No later than June 30 of the third school year following the establishment of the pilot program, the commissioner will submit to the Governor and to the Legislature a report that evaluates the effectiveness of the pilot program in deterring electronic smoking device use by pupils in schools.

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Lisa Swain (D)*,  Chris Tully (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 11/14/2019)

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