Bill Text: NY A08363 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-17 - amended on third reading 8363a [A08363 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08363-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8363--A
                                                                Cal. No. 440

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI, EPSTEIN, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
          GALEF, GOTTFRIED, GRIFFIN, KELLES, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, SIMON,  THIELE,
          ZINERMAN,  L. ROSENTHAL,  BURDICK,  GLICK,  COLTON  --  read  once and
          referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted
          to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  in  accordance  with
          Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- reported from committee, advanced to a
          third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  on
          the order of third reading

        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, 2023; provided, however,  that
    14  if  chapter  613  of  the laws of 2019 shall not have taken effect on or
    15  before such date then section one of this act shall take effect  on  the
    16  same  date  and  in  the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2019
    17  takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11851-02-2