Bill Text: NY S08742 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the state fire administrator to establish hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9337 [S08742 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S08742-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8742 IN SENATE March 6, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 156-a of the executive law 2 are renumbered subdivisions 4 and 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to 3 read as follows: 4 3. Such specialized hazardous materials emergency response training 5 program curriculum shall also include guidance regarding emergency 6 response to incidents involving lithium-ion batteries. For the purposes 7 of this section, "lithium-ion battery" means a storage battery in which 8 an electrical current is generated by lithium ions embedded in a 9 carbon graphite nickel metal-oxide substrate placed in a high-viscosity 10 carbonate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14733-01-4
