Bill > A2029

Introduced Session

This bill directs the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Health (DOH), to develop guidelines for school districts and institutions of higher education that will help facilitate the implementation of on-campus anti-vaping awareness campaigns that target student populations. The purpose of the guidelines is to assist school districts, colleges, and universities in equipping adolescents and young adults with research backed material on the dangers of vaping in effort to combat the increased use of e-cigarettes among adolescents and young adults. The DOE and DOH are to review and update the guidelines annually. The guidelines, at a minimum, are to include recommendations for: (1) implementing an in-school and on-campus multi-tiered anti-vaping campaign that focuses on theories that promote age-appropriate positive behavior change among adolescents and young adults; (2) disseminating research backed materials on the dangers of vaping, as it relates to: its effects on the users' lungs, effects on mental health, how it compares to cigarette smoking, dangers to pregnant women, and its impact on people in the workplace and small children; (3) using decision-making models and decision-making aids to help students make healthy decisions and overcome peer pressure that encourages vaping; and (4) incorporating marketing materials, such as pamphlets, to promote on-campus age-appropriate anti-vaping information to middle school students, high school students, and college age adults. Under this bill, the DOE and DOH are to post the guidelines on the respective website of each department.

Committee Categories

Herbert Conaway (D)*,  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Shanique Speight (D)*,  Clinton Calabrese (D),  Linda Carter (D),  Alixon Collazos-Gill (D),  Margie Donlon (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Tennille McCoy (D),  Jessica Ramirez (D),  William Sampson (D),  Shavonda Sumter (D), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee (on 09/30/2024)

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