Bill Text: NY A07986 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7986 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Eliminates the installation or covering of mercury-containing flooring in elementary and secondary schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-25 - SIGNED CHAP.565 [A07986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07986-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7986

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 30, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to elim-
          inating the installation or covering of mercury-containing flooring in
          elementary and secondary schools

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 27-2119 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-2119. Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring.
     4    1.  Commencing  a  year  after the calendar year in which this section
     5  takes effect, no public or  nonpublic  elementary  or  secondary  school
     6  shall  install a mercury-containing floor nor shall any school install a
     7  floor over a mercury-containing floor prior to removal of  the  mercury-
     8  containing floor.
     9    2. The time weighted average mercury vapor exposure for an employee or
    10  student  of  a  public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall
    11  not exceed 750 ng/m (3).
    12    3. For purposes of this section:
    13    (a) "mercury-containing floor" shall mean a floor  containing  phenyl-
    14  mercuric-acetate catalyst.
    15    (b)  "time weighted average" shall mean an employee's average airborne
    16  exposure in an eight-hour work shift of a forty-hour work week or for  a
    17  person  under  the  age of eighteen shall mean sixteen hours or less per
    18  week averaged over the school year.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11864-01-9