Bill Text: NY S03844 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of chemical flame retardants on residential upholstered furniture.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-22 - PRINT NUMBER 3844A [S03844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03844-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3844--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 20, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, CROCI, GOLDEN, LATIMER, LAVALLE, MARTINS --
          read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Environmental  Conservation  --  recommitted  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
          prohibiting the use of chemical flame retardants
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   Article 37  of  the  environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new title 9 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 9
     4                          CHEMICAL FLAME RETARDANTS
     5  Section 37-0901. Definitions.
     6          37-0903. Prohibition on the use of chemical flame retardants.
     7          37-0905. Increased fire safety.
     8  § 37-0901. Definitions. As used in this title:
     9    1.  "Chemical  flame  retardants"  shall mean any halogenated chemical
    10  flame retardant, including but not limited to TDCPP Tris (1, 3  Dicholo-
    11  ro-2-propyl) phosphate, and any Phosphorus-Bromine flame retardants.
    12    2.  "Residential  upholstered  furniture" shall mean a sofa, loveseat,
    13  chair, ottoman, footstool, or other  item  of  furniture,  intended  for
    14  indoor  use  in  a  home that consists, in whole or in part, of leather,
    15  plastic, fabric or other material that contains cotton,  wool,  polyure-
    16  thane  or other natural or synthetic material that is placed in cushions
    17  or on the frame of the furniture.
    18  § 37-0903. Prohibition on the use of chemical flame retardants.
    19    1. Beginning July first, two  thousand  seventeen,  no  person,  firm,
    20  partnership, association, limited liability company or corporation shall
    21  sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  residential  upholstered furniture that
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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