Bill Text: NY A10888 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10888 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the manufacturing of portable electronic devices; no device shall be manufactured for sale in the state if such device is not equipped with an ATSC 3.0 chip.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10888 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10888-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10888

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Vanel) --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the manufactur-
          ing of portable electronic devices

          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 article
     2  40 to read as follows:
     3                                  ARTICLE 40
     4                         PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
     5  Section 900. Manufacturing requirements.
     6    § 900.  Manufacturing  requirements.  1.  For  the  purposes  of  this
     7  section,  "portable  electronic  device" shall mean any hand-held mobile
     8  telephone, as defined by subdivision one of section twelve hundred twen-
     9  ty-five-c of the vehicle and traffic  law,  personal  digital  assistant
    10  (PDA), or handheld device with mobile data access.
    11    2. On and after January first, two thousand twenty-two, no manufactur-
    12  er  shall  provide for sale in this state any portable electronic device
    13  not equipped with an ATSC 3.0 chip.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16966-01-0