Bill Text: NY S00154 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices, bicycles with electric assist or limited use motorcycles unless such batteries are manufactured in accordance with certain standards and specifications; provides a civil penalty; authorizes district attorneys, county attorneys, and corporation counsel to have concurrent authority to seek the relief.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4938D [S00154 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00154-Amended.html
Bill Title: Prohibits the sale of lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility devices, bicycles with electric assist or limited use motorcycles unless such batteries are manufactured in accordance with certain standards and specifications; provides a civil penalty; authorizes district attorneys, county attorneys, and corporation counsel to have concurrent authority to seek the relief.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4938D [S00154 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00154-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 154--C Cal. No. 656 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, CHU, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, LIU, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the manufacture and sale of lithium-ion batteries for use in light electric-powered vehicles or personal electric mobility devices The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 391-w to read as follows: 3 § 391-w. Lithium-ion battery standards. 1. No person, firm, partner- 4 ship, association or corporation shall manufacture, distribute or sell 5 in this state any lithium-ion batteries or chargers for any light elec- 6 tric-powered vehicle or personal electric mobility device such as a 7 bicycle or scooter powered mobility device that have not been certified 8 by a nationally recognized testing laboratory for compliance with under- 9 writers laboratories (UL) standard 2271, underwiters laboratories (UL) 10 standard 2272, or if such battery is part of a complete electrical 11 system, underwriters laboratories (UL) standard 2849. 12 2. Such certification or the logo, wordmark, or name of such 13 nationally recognized testing laboratory must be displayed on packaging 14 or documentation at the time of sale for the product or directly on the 15 product itself. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01104-04-3S. 154--C 2 1 3. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil penalty 2 of five hundred dollars for the first violation and one thousand dollars 3 for each subsequent violation. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 5 have become a law.
