STATE OF NEW YORK
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8291--A
IN SENATE
February 9, 2022
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Introduced by Sens. BROUK, CLEARE, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
mental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting cosmetic products and personal care products that contain
mercury
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading of section 37-0117 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 44 of the laws of 2020, is
3 amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
4 Prohibition of cosmetic products and personal care products containing
5 1,4-dioxane or mercury.
6 8. No person shall sell or offer for sale any cosmetic product or
7 personal care product containing mercury. For the purposes of this
8 subdivision "mercury" shall mean elemental mercury Hg, mercuric iodide,
9 mercury oxide, mercurous chloride, ethyl mercury, phenyl mercuric
10 salts, ammoniated mercury, amide chloride of mercury, mercury sulfide or
11 cinnabaris, or mercury iodide.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2023.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14088-07-2
