Bill Text: NY A08630 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits cosmetic products and personal care products that contain mercury.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-12-23 - approval memo.64 [A08630 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08630-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8630--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting cosmetic products and personal care products that  contain
          mercury

          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 mercury.
     6    8.  No person   shall  sell  or offer for sale any cosmetic product or
     7  personal care product containing  mercury.  For  the  purposes  of  this
     8  subdivision  "mercury" shall mean elemental mercury Hg, mercuric iodide,
     9  mercury  oxide,  mercurous  chloride,  ethyl   mercury, phenyl  mercuric
    10  salts, ammoniated mercury, amide chloride of mercury, mercury sulfide or
    11  cinnabaris, or mercury iodide.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2023.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14088-06-2