Uma Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 (edited) Just found this at ecf and thought I'd better post this immediately. URGENT -NYS Outright Sales Ban On the AGENDA Again They need us to fight to the bone right away. I'll copy/paste, I'm sure they won't mind: URGENT - NYS Outright Sales Ban On the AGENDA Again The New York State Assembly Health Committee has A01468 on its meeting agenda for this coming Tuesday, 1/25, at 12 noon. If the bill is favorably reported out of committee, it will then go to the full Assembly for a vote - where the identical bill passed unanimously last year! It did not become law only because the Senate version never got out of the Senate Health Committee last year. Here is the bill memo and text: Bills It is Section 2 (starting at line 37) that purports to ban all sales (unless and until approved by the FDA as a cessation product), while Section 1 only bans sales to minors, etc. While we probably have a better chance of stopping this in the NYS Senate, we still need to try and stop it at the Assembly level. And while I would normally be asking for snail mail, because that would seem to be more effective than emails, due to the shortness of notice for Tuesday, I am begging people to send either emails or better yet faxes, and even more importantly, to please find some time on Monday and/or Tuesday morning to make phone calls, if not to all of the committee members, then at least to the Chair and one or two others. Phone calls should go to their Albany offices, as they will be in Albany on Monday. Here is the full list of Assembly Health Committee members, and at the bottom of it you will find both semicolon and comma delimited email lists for ease of use: Assembly Health Committee Chair: Richard N. Gottfried D (a cosponsor) Albany Office LOB 822 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4941 Fax: 518-455-5939 District Office 242 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 212-807-7900 Fax: 212-243-2035 Jonathan L. Bing D Albany Office LOB 744 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4794 f 518- 455-4629 District Office 360 E. 57th Street Mezzanine Level New York, NY 10022 212-605-0937 Kevin A. Cahill D Albany Office LOB 713 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4436 f 518- 455-5576 District Office Governor Clinton Bldg. Suite G-4 1 Albany Ave Kingston, NY 12401 845-338-9610 Robert Castelli R Albany Office LOB 820 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5397 f 518-455-5041 District Office 4 New King Street Suite 125 White Plains, NY 10604 914-686-7335 James D. Conte R Albany Office LOB 446 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5732 f 518- 455-5553 District Office 1783 New York Avenue Huntington Station, NY 11746 631-271-8025 Steven Cymbrowitz D (a cosponsor) Albany Office LOB 538 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5214 f 518- 455-5738 District Office 1800 Sheepshead Bay Road Brooklyn, NY 11235 718-743-4078 Jeffrey Dinowitz D Albany Office LOB 824 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5965 f 518 455-4437 District Office 3107 Kingsbridge Avenue Bronx, NY 10463 718-796-5345 Sandy Galef D (a cosponsor) Albany Office LOB 641 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5348 f 518-455-9132 District Office 2 Church Street Ossining, NY 10562 914-941-1111 Aileen Gunther D Albany Office LOB 435 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5355 f 518-455-5239 District Office 18 Anawana Lake Road Monticello, NY 12701 845-794-5807 District Office 19 South Street Middletown, NY 10940 845-342-9304 Andrew Hevesi D Albany Office LOB 833 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4926 f 518- 455-5173 District Office 70-50 Austin Street Suite 110 Forest Hills, NY 11375 718-263-5595 Rhoda Jacobs D Albany Office LOB 736 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5385 f 518- 455-3881 District Office 2294 Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210 718-434-0446 Charles D. Lavine D Albany Office LOB 441 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5456 Fax: 518-455-5467 District Office 70 Glen St. Suite 100 Glen Cove, NY 11542 516-676-0050 Fax: 516-676-0071 William B. Magnarelli D Albany Office LOB 841 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4826 f 518- 455-5498 District Office Room 840 333 East Washington Street Syracuse, NY 13202 315-428-9651 Nettie Mayersohn D Albany Office LOB 746 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4404 f 518- 455-5408 District Office 159-06 71st Avenue Flushing, NY 11365 718-969-1508 David G. McDonough R Albany Office LOB 443 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4633 FAX 518-455-5559 District Office 404 Bedford Ave. Bellmore, NY 11710 516-409-2070 Joel M. Miller R Albany Office LOB 437 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5725 f 518- 455-5729 District Office 3 Neptune Road Suite A19E Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 845-463-1635 Amy Paulin D Albany Office LOB 627 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5585 f 518- 455-5409 District Office 700 White Plains Rd. Suite 252 Scarsdale, NY 10583 914-723-1115 Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes D Albany Office LOB 619 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5005 fax 518- 455-5471 District Office 792 E. Delavan Avenue Buffalo, NY 14215 716-897-9714 Naomi Rivera D Albany Office LOB 652 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5844 f 518- 455-5596 District Office 1126 Pelham Parkway South Bronx, NY 10461 718-409-0109 Linda B. Rosenthal D (primary bill sponsor) Albany Office 821 LOB Albany, NY 12248 518-455-5802 fax (518) 455-5015 District Office 230 West 72nd Street Suite 2F New York, NY 10023 212-873-6368 Robin Schimminger D Albany Office LOB 847 Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4767 fax (518) 455-4724 District Office 3514 Delaware Avenue Kenmore, NY 14217 716-873-2540 Lou Tobacco R (a cosponsor) Albany Office Room 722 Legislative Office Bldg. Albany, NY 12248 518-455-4495 fax (518) 455-4501 District Office 4062 Amboy Road Staten Island, NY 10308 718-967-5194 Darryl C. Towns D Albany Office LOB 424 ALBANY, NY 12248 518-455-5821 fax (518) 455-5591 District Office 840 JAMAICA AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11208 718-235-5627 Semicolon delimited email list: GottfriedR@assembly.state.ny.us; bingj@assembly.state.ny.us; CahillK@assembly.state.ny.us; CastelliR@assembly.state.ny.us; ConteJ@assembly.state.ny.us; CymbroS@assembly.state.ny.us; DinowiJ@assembly.state.ny.us; GalefS@assembly.state.ny.us; GuntheA@assembly.state.ny.us; HevesiA@assembly.state.ny.us; JacobsR@assembly.state.ny.us; LavineC@assembly.state.ny.us; MagnarW@assembly.state.ny.us; MayersN@assembly.state.ny.us; McDonoD@assembly.state.ny.us; MillerJ@assembly.state.ny.us; PaulinA@assembly.state.ny.us; PeopleC@assembly.state.ny.us; RiveraN@assembly.state.ny.us; RosentL@assembly.state.ny.us; SchimmR@assembly.state.ny.us; TobaccoL@assembly.state.ny.us; TownsD@assembly.state.ny.us Comma delimited email list GottfriedR@assembly.state.ny.us, bingj@assembly.state.ny.us, CahillK@assembly.state.ny.us, CastelliR@assembly.state.ny.us, ConteJ@assembly.state.ny.us, CymbroS@assembly.state.ny.us, DinowiJ@assembly.state.ny.us, GalefS@assembly.state.ny.us, GuntheA@assembly.state.ny.us, HevesiA@assembly.state.ny.us, JacobsR@assembly.state.ny.us, LavineC@assembly.state.ny.us, MagnarW@assembly.state.ny.us, MayersN@assembly.state.ny.us, McDonoD@assembly.state.ny.us, MillerJ@assembly.state.ny.us, PaulinA@assembly.state.ny.us, PeopleC@assembly.state.ny.us, RiveraN@assembly.state.ny.us, RosentL@assembly.state.ny.us, SchimmR@assembly.state.ny.us, TobaccoL@assembly.state.ny.us, TownsD@assembly.state.ny.us Last edited by yvilla; Today at 08:15 PM. Reason: typo I (Yvilla)will be back with the list of Senate Health Committee members in due course, but we have a little more time to deal with that committee. And mailed letters will really be the ideal for them. Edited January 22, 2011 by Uma
BirdDog Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 This is really urgent! The decision will be made on Tuesday! There is a website that has an email already set up to send off. Please read the instructions. Vape Bans
juliery Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 I do not live in NY, but this happened in IL last year....ended up being reassigned to some healthy committee and basically dying there, BUT it is REALLY important that you call and email the reps even outside your jurisdiction and be harsh...make it clear that you will keep records of EVERY person who supports this nonsensical bill AND that you will be sure to spread that info far and wide. MOST of these people have goals beyond their current positions, as such one day they could easily be running for offices where you WOULD have an opportunity to vote for/against them. In fact one of the reps here just ran for treasurer and won....I voted for him, he opposed the e cig ban. So even if they are not in your area, write them anyway. I just wrote one email and kept cutting and pasting it, wrote out one outline for my phone calls and said the same thing over and over. THIS has to be stopped.....if it passes in one state it starts escalating. Take a few hours of your weekend and write all these ppl if you are in NY!!
Uma Posted January 22, 2011 Author Posted January 22, 2011 The reps need to be informed of the benefits of vaping compared to smoking. They're voting blind in many cases. In other cases, they're voting with moral bias. Most of them are just following whatever the FDA shovels at them. Hurry! Tuesday is the deadline!!!
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now