Bill Text: NY A08275 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the consumer protection board to examine and investigate the issues associated with the foreign import of toys containing toxic lead levels; report to senate and assembly on or before April 1, 2011.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A08275 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08275-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8275
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 12, 2009
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       Introduced by M. of A. FIELDS -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Consumer Affairs and Protection
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the consumer
         protection  board  to  investigate  allegations of dangerous toxins in
         imported toys
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  553  of the executive law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph a-2 to read as follows:
    3    A-2. INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF DANGEROUS TOXIN  LEVELS  IN  IMPORTED,
    4  FOREIGN-MANUFACTURED  JEWELRY  AND  TOYS; AND REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND
    5  THE LEGISLATURE WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION TO PROTECT  CONSUM-
    6  ERS;
    7    S  2.  The  state  consumer  protection board shall provide an initial
    8  report to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate  and  the
    9  speaker of the assembly on or before April 1, 2011.
   10    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11091-01-9