STATE OF NEW YORK
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736
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 156-a of the executive law, as
2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive law relat-
3 ing to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents
4 involving lithium-ion batteries, as proposed in legislative bills
5 numbers S. 8742 and A. 9337, is amended to read as follows:
6 3. Such specialized hazardous materials emergency response training
7 program curriculum shall also include guidance regarding emergency
8 response to incidents involving lithium-ion batteries. For the purposes
9 of this section, "lithium-ion battery" [means a storage battery in which
10 an electrical current is generated by lithium ions embedded in a carbon
11 graphite nickel metal-oxide substrate placed in a high-viscosity carbo-
12 nate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte] shall have the same meaning
13 as in section four hundred ninety-five of the general business law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
15 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive law
16 relating to hazardous materials emergency response training for inci-
17 dents involving lithium-ion batteries, as proposed in legislative bills
18 numbers S. 8742 and A. 9337, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02664-01-5
