Bill Text: NY S06625 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to adding additional chemicals to the list of emerging contaminants; directs the commissioner of health to establish the first list within 30 days.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06625 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06625-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6625 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE July 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a list of emerging contaminants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 1112 of the public 2 health law, as added by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of 3 2017, is amended and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows: 4 c. The commissioner shall, at a minimum, include the following chemi- 5 cals identified as emerging contaminants in the first list of emerging 6 contaminants: 1,2,3-trichloropropane; 1,3-butadiene; chloromethane 7 (methyl chloride); 1,1-dichloroethane; bromomethane (methyl bromide); 8 chlorodifluoromethene (HCFC-22); bromochloromethane (halon 1011); 9 1,4-dioxane; vanadium; molybdenum; cobalt; strontium; chromium; chromi- 10 um-6; chlorate; perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS); [and] perfluorooc- 11 tanoic acid (PFOA); perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA); perfluorohexanesulf- 12 onic acid (PFHxS); perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA); perfluorobutanesul- 13 fonic acid (PFBS); hexafluoropropylene oxide (HFPO); 2,3,3,3-tetraf- 14 luoro-2- (heptaflouropropoxy) propanoic acid; 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2- 15 (heptafluoropropoxy) propanoate; heptafluoropropyl 1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro- 16 ethyl ether; testosterone; and 4-androstene-3,17-dione. 17 13. The commissioner shall promulgate the first list of emerging 18 contaminants within thirty days of the effective date of this subdivi- 19 sion. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11758-02-9