Bill Text: NY A04600 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4600

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04600 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04600-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4600

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the  sale  or  offer  for sale of any cosmetic product or
          personal care product containing PFAS substances

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 37-0117 of the environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  44 of the laws of 2020, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
     4  Prohibition of cosmetic products and personal care  products  containing
     5                 1,4-dioxane or PFAS substances.
     6    8.  No  person  shall  sell  or offer for sale any cosmetic product or
     7  personal care product containing intentionally  added  PFAS  substances.
     8  For  the  purposes  of  this subdivision, "PFAS substances" shall mean a
     9  class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing  at  least  one  fully
    10  fluorinated  carbon  atom  and "intentionally added" shall have the same
    11  meaning as "intentionally  added  chemical"  in  subdivision  eleven  of
    12  section 37-0901 of  this  article.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01088-01-3