Bill Text: NY S08227 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the sale of child products containing organohalogen flame retardant.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S08227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8227
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 19, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- 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 of child products containing organohalogen flame
          retardant
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  37-0703 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. "Organohalogen flame retardant" shall include any chemical contain-
     4  ing the element bromine or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to  a
     5  plastic, foam or textile.
     6    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 37-0705 of the environmental conserva-
     7  tion law, as added by chapter 259 of the laws of  2011,  is  amended  to
     8  read as follows:
     9    1.  (a)  Beginning  December  first, two thousand thirteen, no person,
    10  firm, partnership, association, limited liability company or corporation
    11  shall sell or offer for sale any child care product intended for use  by
    12  a child three years of age or younger containing TRIS.
    13    (b)  Beginning  July  first,  two  thousand nineteen, no person, firm,
    14  partnership, association, limited liability company or corporation shall
    15  sell or offer for sale any child care product  intended  for  use  by  a
    16  child  three  years  of  age  or  younger containing organohalogen flame
    17  retardant.
    18    § 3. Section 37-0707 of the environmental conservation law,  as  added
    19  by chapter 259 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    20  § 37-0707. Preemption.
    21    Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to TRIS and organohalogen flame
    22  retardant  which  are regulated pursuant to the provisions of this title
    23  shall be vested exclusively in the state.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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