Bill Text: NY S04381 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Includes hexavalent chromium in the list for emerging contaminants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04381 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S04381-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4381--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, ADDABBO, BAILEY, DILAN, KAMINSKY, KRUEGER, PARKER, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including hexava- lent chromium in the list of emerging contaminants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 1112 of the public 2 health law, as added by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of 3 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 c. The commissioner shall, at a minimum, include the following chemi- 5 cals identified as emerging contaminants: 1,4-dioxane; hexavalent chro- 6 mium (chromium-6); perfluorooctanesulfonic acid; and perfluorooctanoic 7 acid. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09680-02-7