A03855 Summary:

BILL NOA03855A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S06282
 
SPONSOREnglebright
 
COSPNSRColton
 
MLTSPNSRGottfried
 
Add S409-l, Ed L; amd S206, Pub Health L
 
Prohibits the use, purchase and storage of mercury and mercury instruments in schools; provides that mercury instruments may continue to be used if no reasonably acceptable mercury-free alternative is available, so long as the mercury instrument used has the lowest mercury content available; directs the commissioner of health to compile, produce and distribute material advising schools of the hazards of elemental mercury and how to reduce such hazards.
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A03855 Actions:

BILL NOA03855A
 
01/28/2011referred to education
01/04/2012referred to education
03/13/2012amend and recommit to education
03/13/2012print number 3855a
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A03855 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A03855 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3855--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 28, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Educa-
          tion  --  recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting  the  use,
          purchase and storage of elemental mercury by schools; and to amend the
          public health law, in relation to directing the commissioner of health
          to  compile  and  distribute  materials  for schools on the hazards of
          elemental mercury and actions  which  may  be  taken  to  reduce  such
          hazards
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  409-l
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  409-l.  Elimination  of  the use of elemental mercury. 1. Except as
     4  otherwise provided in subdivision two of  this  section,  no  public  or
     5  private  school or educational institution in this state shall purchase,

     6  use or store any quantity of free  flowing  elemental  mercury  for  any
     7  purpose, nor purchase, use or store any instrument which contains mercu-
     8  ry  including,  but not limited to, thermometers, barometers, sphygmoma-
     9  nometers and manometers.
    10    2. If no reasonably acceptable, mercury-free  alternative  exists  for
    11  any  instrument  prohibited by subdivision one of this section, a school
    12  or educational  institution  may  use  such  type  of  instrument  which
    13  contains the lowest mercury content readily available on the market.
    14    3. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of environ-
    15  mental  conservation,  shall  promulgate rules and regulations requiring
    16  public and private schools and educational institutions in this state to

    17  dispose of or recycle any quantity of elemental mercury and  instruments
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05268-03-2

        A. 3855--A                          2
 
     1  containing  mercury  in  a manner which is least harmful to the environ-
     2  ment.
     3    §  2.  Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 29 to read as follows:
     5    29. The commissioner shall compile,  produce  and  distribute  to  all
     6  public  and  private schools and educational institutions in this state,
     7  materials explaining  the  hazards  created  by  elemental  mercury  and

     8  actions that may be taken to reduce such hazards.
     9    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one
    10  of this act shall take effect on the first of July next  succeeding  the
    11  date on which it shall have become a law.
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