Bill Text: NY S03261 | 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 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - PRINT NUMBER 3261A [S03261 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03261-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3261--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, ADDABBO, CARLUCCI, HOYLMAN, LATIMER, PANEP-
          INTO,  SERRANO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
          be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance
          with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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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