Bill Text: NY S04974 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Bans unencapsulated expanded or extruded polystyrene foam in floating docks and floating platforms sold, offered for sale, or constructed in the state.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S04974 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04974-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4974--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. WALCZYK, OBERACKER, WEBER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
          mental Conservation -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee  and
          committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          banning unencapsulated expanded or extruded polystyrene foam in float-
          ing docks and floating platforms

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

     1    Section 1. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law is amended
     2  by adding a new title 34 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE 34
     4                         UNENCAPSULATED EXPANDED OR
     5                        EXTRUDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM BAN
     6  Section 27-3401. Definitions.
     7          27-3403. Unencapsulated  expanded  or  extruded polystyrene foam
     8                     ban.
     9  § 27-3401. Definitions.
    10    For the purposes of this title, the following  terms  shall  have  the
    11  following meanings:
    12    1.  "Expanded  polystyrene  foam"  means  expanded foam thermoplastics
    13  utilizing a styrene monomer and processed by any number  of  techniques.
    14  Such term shall not include rigid polystyrene.
    15    2. "Extruded polystyrene foam" means polystyrene foam manufactured via
    16  an  extrusion  process  where  plastic  resin  and  other  additives are
    17  combined and extruded through a die, before cooling and  expanding  into
    18  its final shape.
    19    3. "Rigid polystyrene" means plastic made from rigid polystyrene resin
    20  that has not been expanded, extruded, or foamed.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09008-03-3
        S. 4974--A                          2

     1  § 27-3403. Unencapsulated expanded or extruded polystyrene foam ban.
     2    1.  Beginning  January first, two thousand twenty-five, any person who
     3  sells, offers to sell, or distributes a floating dock or floating  plat-
     4  form  in  this  state shall ensure that any expanded polystyrene foam or
     5  extruded polystyrene foam in such floating dock or floating platform  is
     6  fully encapsulated.
     7    2.  Beginning  January first, two thousand twenty-five, any person who
     8  constructs a floating dock or floating  platform  in  this  state  shall
     9  ensure  that  any expanded polystyrene foam or extruded polystyrene foam
    10  in such floating dock or floating platform is fully encapsulated.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.