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Senate Bill S7965

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and use of wire grill brushes

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2025-S7965 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5488
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 37 Title 13 §§37-1301 - 37-1307, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9274

2025-S7965 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and use of wire grill brushes.

2025-S7965 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7965 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7965
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and use of wire grill brushes

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Article 37 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 by adding a new title 13 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 13
                            WIRE GRILL BRUSHES
 SECTION 37-1301. DEFINITIONS.
         37-1303. PROHIBITION ON MANUFACTURE, SALE, AND USE OF WIRE GRILL
                    BRUSHES.
         37-1305. PREEMPTION.
         37-1307. RULES AND REGULATIONS.
 § 37-1301. DEFINITIONS.
   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS TITLE, "WIRE GRILL BRUSH" SHALL MEAN A WIRE-BRIS-
 TLED BRUSH USED TO CLEAN A GRILL.
 § 37-1303. PROHIBITION ON MANUFACTURE,  SALE,  AND  USE  OF  WIRE  GRILL
              BRUSHES.
   ON  AND  AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX, NO PERSON SHALL
 MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTE, SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE, OR USE IN THE STATE ANY
 WIRE GRILL BRUSH.
 § 37-1305. PREEMPTION.
   JURISDICTION IN ALL MATTERS PERTAINING TO WIRE GRILL BRUSHES WHICH ARE
 REGULATED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  TITLE  SHALL  BE  VESTED
 EXCLUSIVELY IN THE STATE.
 § 37-1307. RULES AND REGULATIONS.
   THE  DEPARTMENT IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS
 AS IT SHALL DEEM NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS TITLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05166-01-5

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