Bill Text: NY S01236 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to jewelry containing lead.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - PRINT NUMBER 1236A [S01236 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01236-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1236--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation  -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
          vation  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the general busi-
          ness law, in relation to jewelry containing lead
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative findings. The  legislature  hereby  finds  that
     2  stringent  controls  on  the  amount of lead in jewelry are necessary to
     3  protect public health,  especially  the  health  of  children.    Random
     4  samples  of  jewelry  in New York state have been found to contain up to
     5  60,000 parts per million of lead. To assure  consistent  application  of
     6  these controls to all jewelry, specific technical standards and controls
     7  must be specified.
     8    §  2.  The  environmental  conservation law is amended by adding a new
     9  section 37-0115 to read as follows:
    10  § 37-0115. Lead-containing jewelry.
    11    For purposes of this section,  the  following  terms  shall  have  the
    12  following definitions:
    13    1.  "Body piercing jewelry" means any part of jewelry that is manufac-
    14  tured or sold for placement in a new piercing or a mucous membrane,  but
    15  does  not  include  any part of that jewelry that is not placed within a
    16  new piercing or a mucous membrane.
    17    2. "Children" means children aged six and younger.
    18    3. "Children's jewelry" means jewelry that is made for,  marketed  for
    19  use  by,  or  marketed to, children. Children's jewelry includes, but is
    20  not limited to, jewelry that meets any of the following conditions:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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