Bill Text: NY A09181 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires electric space heaters to have thermostats, automatic shut-offs and be certified by a testing and certification body recognized and approved by the United States department of labor, occupational safety and health administration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - substituted by s7863a [A09181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09181-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9181--B
                                                                Cal. No. 559

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, PAULIN, JACKSON, FORREST,
          J. RIVERA,  DICKENS,  CRUZ, GUNTHER, FRONTUS, COLTON, ZINERMAN, SIMON,
          JACOBSON, O'DONNELL, GIBBS,  GOTTFRIED,  GLICK,  DAVILA,  JEAN-PIERRE,
          OTIS  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs
          and  Protection  --  committee  discharged,  bill   amended,   ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- 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 general business law, in relation to the sale of
          electric space heaters

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-jj to read as follows:
     3    §  391-jj.  Sale  of electric space heaters. No person, firm, partner-
     4  ship, association or corporation regularly engaged in  the  business  of
     5  assembling,  manufacturing,  distributing or the retail sale of electric
     6  space heaters shall assemble, manufacture, distribute, sell or offer  to
     7  sell  any electric space heater in the normal course of business in this
     8  state unless such electric space heater:
     9    1. includes a thermostat;
    10    2. includes an automatic shut-off; and
    11    3. has been certified by a testing and certification  body  recognized
    12  and  approved  by  the  United  States department of labor, occupational
    13  safety and health administration.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14319-05-2
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