STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6145 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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 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