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Relates to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries, the official text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1020
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAYLOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 156-a of  the  executive  law,  as
 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the executive law relat-
 ing  to  hazardous  materials  emergency response training for incidents
 involving  lithium-ion  batteries,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 8742 and A. 9337, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Such  specialized  hazardous materials emergency response training
 program curriculum  shall  also  include  guidance  regarding  emergency
 response  to incidents involving lithium-ion batteries. For the purposes
 of this section, "lithium-ion battery" [means a storage battery in which
 an electrical current is generated by lithium ions embedded in a  carbon
 graphite  nickel metal-oxide substrate placed in a high-viscosity carbo-
 nate mixture or gelled polymer electrolyte] SHALL HAVE THE SAME  MEANING
 AS IN SECTION FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2024  amending  the  executive  law
 relating  to  hazardous  materials emergency response training for inci-
 dents involving lithium-ion batteries, as proposed in legislative  bills
 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
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