Prohibits the sale and distribution of compact fluorescent mercury-added lamps and linear fluorescent mercury-added lamps on and after January 1, 2028; provides exceptions; allows for sale of otherwise prohibited lamps from existing stock acquired prior to such date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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Cal. No. 1376
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 11, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
-- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the sale and distribution of certain mercury-added lamps
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 27-2101 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding two new subdivisions 35 and 36 to read as follows:
3 35. "Compact fluorescent mercury-added lamp" means a compact, low-
4 pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source, whether
5 integrally ballasted or non-integrally ballasted and regardless of the
6 tube diameter or length and the shape or size of the lamp, in which a
7 fluorescent coating transforms a portion of the ultraviolet energy
8 generated by the mercury discharge into visible light and that:
9 (a) Has a single base or end cap of any type, including, but not
10 limited to, a screw base type, a bayonet base type or a two-pin or four-
11 pin base type; and
12 (b) Provides a light emission between a correlated color temperature
13 of seventeen hundred kelvin and twenty-four thousand kelvin and a Duv of
14 +0.024 and -0.024 in the international commission on illumination (CIE)
15 uniform color space (CAM02-UCS).
16 36. "Linear fluorescent mercury-added lamp" means a low-pressure,
17 mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source, regardless of the
18 tube diameter and the shape of the lamp, in which a fluorescent coating
19 transforms a portion of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury
20 discharge into visible light and that:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (a) Has two bases or end caps of any type, including, but not limited
2 to, a one-pin or two-pin base type and a recessed double contact base
3 type;
4 (b) Provides a light emission between a correlated color temperature
5 of seventeen hundred kelvin and twenty-four thousand kelvin and a Duv of
6 +0.024 and -0.024 in the international commission on illumination (CIE)
7 uniform color space (CAM02-UCS); and
8 (c) Has a tube length of 0.5 feet to eight feet.
9 § 2. Section 27-2107 of the environmental conservation law is amended
10 by adding a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
11 13. (a) On and after January first, two thousand twenty-eight, no
12 person shall sell, offer for sale, or distribute a compact fluorescent
13 mercury-added lamp or a linear fluorescent mercury-added lamp, except
14 that existing stock acquired prior to such date may be exhausted until
15 July first, two thousand twenty-eight.
16 (b) The prohibitions in this subdivision do not apply to:
17 (i) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for image capture and
18 projection, including: photocopying; printing, directly or in preproc-
19 essing; lithography; film or video projection; or holography;
20 (ii) A lamp that has a high proportion of ultraviolet light emission
21 and is one of the following:
22 (1) a lamp with high ultraviolet content that has ultraviolet power
23 greater than two milliwatts per kilolumen;
24 (2) a lamp for germicidal use, such as the destruction of DNA, that
25 emits a peak radiation of approximately 253.7 nanometers;
26 (3) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for disinfection or fly
27 trapping from which either the radiation power emitted between two
28 hundred fifty and three hundred fifteen nanometers represents at least
29 five percent of, or the radiation power emitted between three hundred
30 fifteen and four hundred nanometers represents at least twenty percent
31 of, the total radiation power emitted between two hundred fifty and
32 eight hundred nanometers;
33 (4) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for the generation of
34 ozone where the primary purpose is to emit radiation at approximately
35 185.1 nanometers;
36 (5) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for coral zooxanthellae
37 symbiosis from which the radiation power emitted between four hundred
38 and four hundred eighty nanometers represents at least forty percent of
39 the total radiation power emitted between two hundred fifty and eight
40 hundred nanometers; and
41 (6) a lamp designed and marketed exclusively for use in a sunlamp
42 product, as defined in 21 CFR 1040.20(b)(9);
43 (iii) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for use in medical or
44 veterinary diagnosis or treatment or in a medical device;
45 (iv) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for use in the manufac-
46 turing or quality control of pharmaceutical products;
47 (v) A lamp designed and marketed exclusively for spectroscopy and
48 photometric applications, such as UV-visible spectroscopy, molecular
49 spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy, nondispersive infrared
50 spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, medical analysis,
51 ellipsometry, layer thickness measurement, process monitoring, or envi-
52 ronmental monitoring;
53 (vi) A lamp used by academic and research institutions exclusively for
54 conducting research projects and experiments; or
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1 (vii) A compact fluorescent mercury-added lamp used to replace a lamp
2 in a motor vehicle manufactured on or before January first, two thousand
3 twenty.
4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.
