Bill Text: NY S04171 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04171 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04171-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4171 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation 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 754 of the laws of 2022, is 3 amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows: 4 Prohibition of cosmetic products and personal care products containing 5 1,4-dioxane, PFAS substances or mercury. 6 9. 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, 2024; provided, however, that 14 if chapter 754 of the laws of 2022 shall not have taken effect by such 15 date, this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner 16 as such chapter of the laws of 2022 takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01088-02-3