This meeting is being recorded and summarized.

All right, we are ready to get started here.

Thank you everyone for uh joining us here Monday, June 29th at the one o'clock for our joint committee on legislation and committee on health meeting.

I'm going to open legislation by taking attendance.

I'm here.

Committee vice chair and a more uh board vice chair Clements.

Minority Leader Crumfield.

Yep.

Uh Legislator Barr.

Legislator Nolan.

Yeah.

Legislator Puja.

Here.

Legislator Ulai.

And Chairman Gashi.

Okay.

We have a form and we are coming to order at 107.

Manager of the Club Free.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I'm Jewel Johnson, Chair of the Water Legislative Committee on California.

Take a sentence to officially start.

Mark and myself is here.

Can we vice chair Barr?

Here.

Yes, we can here.

Let's say Magashi.

We have to open that 107.

Okay.

So we have uh a couple of items to discuss and leaving it off is the first joint item, which is a public hearing and a local law that uh has to do with prohibiting the sale of camouflage vaping devices in Westchester County.

And to discuss those items with us, we have uh members of our uh health department, Dr.

Amler and uh Susan Garcia.

Would you like to join us at the people as well as uh members of our uh our great community law department?

Just if you wouldn't mind stating your name and affiliation for the meeting, Dr.

Shirley Amler, Mr.

Fro from Western County.

I'm Susan Garcio, that's L G U E R C I O, and I'm the Assistant Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs and Compliance.

Jason Whitehead, Associate County.

All right, well, thank you all for joining us today.

And um, I don't know, Jules, did you want to uh lead off with any comments on this?

Um as many of you know, we've been um reviewing and um deciding the best course on stopping the profusion of flavored tobacco and wage products.

Um we've discussed it many times at the table here in health committee meetings.

We discussed it at our board of health meetings and uh uh proposed legislation on the uh flavor tobacco storage meeting for public state law uh a while ago, and that came up uh a couple years ago when we asked the uh flavored tobacco ban that was uh eventually uh vetoed by the county executive.

So um so now we have this uh legislation uh that's uh the second item on the agenda, and we also have the first item as what Mr.

Chairman said about the camouflage bill, uh proposed by current county executive against camouflage based in silence as you know maybe you can look like a um CPS board or cigarette lighter or pen or uh anything, but they're actually uh eight products, and I think it's great that it stems from this summit in interim last year to just so I'll see good.

I'm for anything that can stop our young people using vage products.

Um I think it's important to note that uh many people, not only young people think that it's less dangerous to use a vape product than another tobacco product, but in fact the opposite is so I'm very um I see Susan and Dr.

Adler shaking their heads.

They two uh can safely say feel the same way and I must congratulate um and well I must thank Susan and the uh uh Department of Health staff for their efforts in their uh investigating and violations to this end and I thank the county attorneys just for drafting this legislation.

We did review both and uh separate health committee meeting a couple of weeks ago.

So I'm anxious to hear uh what um Justin has to say about what we're looking at today and uh shut up thank you, Madam Chair, and so uh let the law department you wanna I'm gonna defer to Jason since he did the uh lion share of work on the strength.

So we just as uh we should say we're just trying to um eliminate kids getting children under 21 actually anybody getting these lots of um uh uh uh contraptions, um whether it's uh somebody under 21 or whether somebody over 21, somebody over 21 giving it to somebody who's under 21.

Um I think the law um goes far enough in terms of restricting things like look like school supplies, personal items like highlighters, USB drives, ballpoint pens, smartphones, uh SOT watches and and the like um and if as we all know New York State does not have a ban on these um these uh items.

Um so it the law would uh ban any of these items being sold, transferred, given, um, etc.

And it would also create um a penalty of uh class B misdemeanor.

Um if any any of these items are sold or transferred, um and it also it it also goes in conjunction with um New York State law.

Um there's also penalties in New York uh New York public health law, um which uh somebody who sells or transferred will also be subject to.

Um so uh it's all there in the language.

Um if you have any other questions from the OC demand.

There uh there is um one thing that uh we did catch that we need to make uh uh we need to ask committee to make committees we uh in the definition of vapor product, which is um the third page of the law number uh the new new 11.