Bill Text: NY A05844 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the reduction of mercury in mercury-added lamps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [A05844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05844-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5844--A
                                                                Cal. No. 221
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 5, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. KAVANAGH, COLTON, JAFFEE, ABINANTI, ROSENTHAL,
          OTIS, ROZIC, ORTIZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT,  FAHY,  STIRPE,  DINOWITZ,  LINARES,
          SKOUFIS  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. GALEF, GLICK, PAULIN,
          THIELE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Environ-
          mental  Conservation  --  advanced  to  a  third  reading, amended and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          reduction of mercury in mercury-added lamps
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 27-2101 of the environmental conservation  law  is
     2  amended  by  adding five new subdivisions 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34 to read
     3  as follows:
     4    30. "Mercury-added lamp" means an electric lamp to  which  mercury  or
     5  mercury compounds are intentionally added during the manufacturing proc-
     6  ess,  including, but not limited to, compact fluorescent lamps, fluores-
     7  cent lamps and tubular fluorescent lamps with normal or long lifetime.
     8    31. "Producer of mercury-added lamps" means any person who:
     9    (a) manufactures and sells mercury-added lamps under its own brand;
    10    (b) resells under its own brand equipment produced by other suppliers,
    11  a reseller not being regarded as the producer of mercury-added lamps  if
    12  the  brand  of the producer of mercury-added lamps appears on the equip-
    13  ment, as provided for in paragraph (a) of this subdivision; or
    14    (c) serves as the importer or domestic distributor of a  mercury-added
    15  lamp if the brand name owner is located outside of the United States.
    16    32. "General purpose lights" means lamps, bulbs, tubes, or other elec-
    17  tric  devices  that  provide functional illumination for indoor residen-
    18  tial, indoor commercial, and outdoor use. General purpose  lights  shall
    19  not include special purpose lights.
    20    33.  "Special  purpose lights" means the following specialty lighting:
    21  appliance, black light, germicidal, bug,  colored,  infrared,  left-hand
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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