Bill Text: NY S04171 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04171 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04171-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4171

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- 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  or  offer  for sale of any cosmetic product or
          personal care product containing PFAS substances

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 37-0117 of the environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 754 of the laws of 2022, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
     4    Prohibition of cosmetic products and personal care products containing
     5                 1,4-dioxane, PFAS substances or mercury.
     6    9. No person shall sell or offer for  sale  any  cosmetic  product  or
     7  personal  care  product  containing intentionally added PFAS substances.
     8  For the purposes of this subdivision, "PFAS  substances"  shall  mean  a
     9  class  of  fluorinated  organic  chemicals containing at least one fully
    10  fluorinated carbon atom and "intentionally added" shall  have  the  same
    11  meaning  as  "intentionally  added  chemical"  in  subdivision eleven of
    12  section 37-0901 of  this  article.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024; provided, however,  that
    14  if  chapter  754 of the laws of 2022 shall not have taken effect by such
    15  date, this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner
    16  as such chapter of the laws of 2022 takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01088-02-3