Bill Text: NY S08742 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8742

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the state fire administrator to establish hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9337 [S08742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08742-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8742

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  hazardous  materials
          emergency  response    training  for  incidents  involving lithium-ion
          batteries

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 156-a of the executive law
     2  are renumbered subdivisions 4 and 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3.  Such  specialized  hazardous materials emergency response training
     5  program curriculum  shall  also  include  guidance  regarding  emergency
     6  response  to incidents involving lithium-ion batteries. For the purposes
     7  of this section, "lithium-ion battery" means a storage battery in  which
     8  an  electrical  current is generated by lithium ions       embedded in a
     9  carbon graphite nickel metal-oxide substrate placed in a  high-viscosity
    10  carbonate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14733-01-4