---
type: "Bill"
title: "Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia"
description: "Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia; provides that an enforcement officer for purposes of section 1399-ee of the public health law shall be the office of administrative trials and hearings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 5624"
citation: "New York S 5624 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Kavanagh"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-11-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66a8da4f-f5f8-4556-ab62-fe025611813f"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5624"
source_hash: "ac555960e442cb032e6a12da093c509f09b87da9ed6ab93547378e884df71f0c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5624 (2025-2026) — Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia

Defines enforcement officers in a city with a population of one million or more for the purposes of regulating tobacco products, herbal cigarettes and smoking paraphernalia; provides that an enforcement officer for purposes of section 1399-ee of the public health law shall be the office of administrative trials and hearings.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5624** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5624&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Health Vote — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **58–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Kavanagh — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-26** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-13** 1ST REPORT CAL.1090
- **2025-05-14** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-05-15** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-12** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-12** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8468
- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.833
- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-11-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-11-21** SIGNED CHAP.551 `executive-signature`
- **2025-11-25** APPROVAL MEMO.8

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66a8da4f-f5f8-4556-ab62-fe025611813f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).