Prohibits state agencies from purchasing hand soap or cleaning products containing triclosan, triclocarban or derivatives of such antibacterial compounds.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8707
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to prohibiting state
agencies from purchasing hand soap or cleaning products containing
triclosan, triclocarban or derivatives of such antibacterial compounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 165 of the state finance law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Prohibition on purchase of hand soap and cleaning products that
4 contain triclosan, triclocarban, or derivatives of such antibacterial
5 compounds.
6 a. Except as hereinafter provided, the state and any state authority
7 as such term is defined in subdivision one of section two of the public
8 authorities law shall not purchase or obtain for any purpose any hand
9 soap and cleaning products that contain triclosan, triclocarban, or
10 derivatives of such antibacterial compounds, wholesale or retail, in any
11 form.
12 b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
13 to:
14 (i) the purchase of hand soap and cleaning products that contain
15 triclosan, triclocarban, or derivatives of such antibacterial compounds
16 that are used solely in medical facilities; or
17 (ii) any binding contractual obligations for purchase of commodities
18 entered into prior to the effective date of this subdivision.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect one year from the date on which it
20 shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13402-03-4
