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Assembly Bill A8363A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances

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2021-A8363 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8364
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37-0117, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A4600, S4171
2025-2026: A1635, S3205

2021-A8363 - Summary

Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances.

2021-A8363 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8363
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI, EPSTEIN, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
   GALEF, GOTTFRIED, GRIFFIN, KELLES, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, SIMON,  THIELE,
   ZINERMAN  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental
   Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  the  sale  or  offer  for sale of any cosmetic product or
   personal care product containing PFAS substances
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading of section 37-0117 of the environmental
 conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  44 of the laws of 2020, is
 amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
 Prohibition of cosmetic products and personal care  products  containing
                1,4-dioxane OR PFAS SUBSTANCES.
   8.  NO  PERSON  SHALL  SELL  OR OFFER FOR SALE ANY COSMETIC PRODUCT OR
 PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT CONTAINING PFAS SUBSTANCES. FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF
 THIS  SUBDIVISION,  "PFAS  SUBSTANCES" SHALL MEAN A CLASS OF FLUORINATED
 ORGANIC CHEMICALS CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE FULLY FLUORINATED CARBON ATOM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2023; provided, however,  that
 if  chapter  613  of  the laws of 2019 shall not have taken effect on or
 before such date then section one of this act shall take effect  on  the
 same  date  and  in  the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2019
 takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11851-01-1

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2021-A8363A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8364
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37-0117, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A4600, S4171
2025-2026: A1635, S3205

2021-A8363A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale or offer for sale of any cosmetic product or personal care product containing PFAS substances.

2021-A8363A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8363--A
                                                         Cal. No. 440
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI, EPSTEIN, FAHY, FERNANDEZ,
   GALEF, GOTTFRIED, GRIFFIN, KELLES, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, SIMON,  THIELE,
   ZINERMAN,  L. ROSENTHAL,  BURDICK,  GLICK,  COLTON  --  read  once and
   referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted
   to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  in  accordance  with
   Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- reported from committee, advanced to a
   third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  on
   the order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   prohibiting the sale or offer for sale  of  any  cosmetic  product  or
   personal care product containing PFAS substances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading of section 37-0117 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by chapter 44  of  the  laws  of  2020,  is
 amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
 Prohibition  of  cosmetic products and personal care products containing
                1,4-dioxane OR PFAS SUBSTANCES.
   8. NO PERSON SHALL SELL OR OFFER FOR  SALE  ANY  COSMETIC  PRODUCT  OR
 PERSONAL  CARE  PRODUCT  CONTAINING INTENTIONALLY ADDED PFAS SUBSTANCES.
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "PFAS  SUBSTANCES"  SHALL  MEAN  A
 CLASS  OF  FLUORINATED  ORGANIC  CHEMICALS CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE FULLY
 FLUORINATED CARBON ATOM AND "INTENTIONALLY ADDED" SHALL  HAVE  THE  SAME
 MEANING  AS  "INTENTIONALLY  ADDED  CHEMICAL"  IN  SUBDIVISION ELEVEN OF
 SECTION 37-0901 OF  THIS  ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2023; provided, however,  that
 if  chapter  613  of  the laws of 2019 shall not have taken effect on or
 before such date then section one of this act shall take effect  on  the
 same  date  and  in  the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2019
 takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11851-02-2

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