Assembly Bill A9337

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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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2023-A9337 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8742
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156-a, Exec L

2023-A9337 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state fire administrator to establish hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries.

2023-A9337 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9337
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 1, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 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:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 156-a of the executive  law
 are  renumbered subdivisions 4 and 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to
 read as follows:
   3. SUCH SPECIALIZED HAZARDOUS MATERIALS  EMERGENCY  RESPONSE  TRAINING
 PROGRAM  CURRICULUM  SHALL  ALSO  INCLUDE  GUIDANCE  REGARDING EMERGENCY
 RESPONSE TO INCIDENTS INVOLVING LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES. FOR THE  PURPOSES
 OF  THIS SECTION, "LITHIUM-ION BATTERY" MEANS A STORAGE BATTERY IN WHICH
 AN ELECTRICAL CURRENT IS GENERATED BY LITHIUM IONS        EMBEDDED IN  A
 CARBON  GRAPHITE NICKEL METAL-OXIDE SUBSTRATE PLACED IN A HIGH-VISCOSITY
 CARBONATE MIXTURE OR GELLED POLYMER ELECTROLYTE.
   § 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

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