Senate Bill S902

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A953 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S902 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A953
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37-0119, En Con L; amd §2, Chap of 2020 (as proposed in S.6829-B & A.8829-A)

2021-S902 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene; provides that no person shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemical to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction solvent or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.

2021-S902 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S902 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    902
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  certain uses of trichloroethylene; and to amend a chapter
   of the laws of  2020,  amending  the  environmental  conservation  law
   relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethylene, as proposed
   in  legislative  bills numbers S. 6829-B and A. 8829-A, in relation to
   the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 37-0119 of the environmental conservation law, as
 added by a chapter of the  laws  of  2020,  amending  the  environmental
 conservation  law relating to prohibiting certain uses of trichloroethy-
 lene, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6829-B and A.  8829-A,
 is amended to read as follows:
 § 37-0119. Prohibition against certain uses of trichloroethylene.
   1.  [Beginning  December first, two thousand twenty-one, no] NO person
 shall use trichloroethylene as a vapor degreaser, an intermediate chemi-
 cal to produce other chemicals, a refrigerant, or an extraction  solvent
 or in any other manufacturing or industrial cleaning process or use.
   2. For purposes of this section:
   (a)  "Extraction  solvent" means a solvent used to separate a specific
 substance from a mixture.
   (b) "Refrigerant" means a chemical that is used as a heat carrier in a
 cooling mechanism and that changes from liquid to gas and back again  in
 the refrigeration cycle.
   (c)  "Trichloroethylene"  means  a chemical with the Chemical Registry
 Abstract Services Number of 79-01-6.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07192-01-1

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