Sentences with phrase «clean indoor air act»

It is time for our state legislators to pass the bill including e-cigarettes in the Clean Indoor Air Act.

Under the revisions to the Clean Indoor Air Act, vaping will be banned within 100 feet of the entrances, exits or outdoor areas of any public or private school.

Coalition members want the Senate to pass a bill that extends the provisions of New York's 14 - year - old Clean Indoor Air Act to also include e-cigarettes, effectively banning their use in most restaurants, bars and workplaces.

Assemblyman Keith Wright's habit of smoking in Albany's legislative office building has neighbors and staffers fuming, say sources who claim the Harlem Democrat has been flouting the state's Clean Indoor Air Act for years.

The governor last night signed into law a bill that adds e-cigarettes to the Clean Indoor Air Act, banning their use in bars, restaurants and other indoor and some outdoor areas.

WHEREAS, Erie County has a long history of being at the forefront of protecting our environment, whether it be the passage of the first Clean Indoor Air Act in 1996 or the passage of a law in 2015 Prohibiting the Sale of Personal Cosmetic Products Containing Microbeads, which law became the an impetus to and model for the United States Congress passing, and President Barack Obama signing, the Microbead free - Waters Act of 2015;

Cuomo's briefing book said the governor would seek to include e-cigarettes under the state's Clean Indoor Air Act, prohibiting people from smoking or «vaping» e-cigarettes anywhere cigarette smoking is already illegal.

New York State wants to extend the provisions of its 14 - year - old Clean Indoor Air Act to also include e-cigarettes, effectively banning their use in most restaurants, bars and workplaces.

In another matter, the Legislature recently approved a local law that includes electronic cigarettes and vaping establishments in the Erie County Clean Indoor Air Act.

After years of pressure from advocates, legislators expanded the Clean Indoor Air Act by adding e-cigarettes to indoor spaces where smoking is banned, including bars, restaurants, movie theaters and office buildings.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Monday approved legislation that would apply electronic cigarettes to the Clean Indoor Air Act, a move that will limit where e-cigarettes can be used indoor and outdoor spaces.

Cuomo said the new law closes a «dangerous loophole» in the state's Clean Indoor Air Act, which limits cigarette smoking in public places.

One bill tackles electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes, and would have the increasingly popular nicotine alternative fall under the Clean Indoor Air Act.

Not exact matches

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

Sponsors of the statewide ban are confident the measure will pass this legislative session as part of a much larger Indoor Clean Air Act bill.