STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1700 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the transport of lithium and lithium metal batteries on all aircraft The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 244 to read as follows: 3 § 244. Lithium battery ban. No aircraft departing from a New York 4 airport shall be permitted to transport, as cargo, lithium or lithium 5 metal batteries. Only lithium or lithium metal batteries in cellular 6 devices or computers including tablets and laptops, shall be permitted 7 on such aircraft under certain circumstances. Such circumstances include 8 when the lithium or lithium metal battery remains in such device and is 9 kept within the passenger cabin. No device containing a lithium or 10 lithium metal battery shall be stored within the cargo hold or any other 11 area of the aircraft. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07064-01-9