A07839 Summary:

BILL NOA07839
 
SAME ASSAME AS S06625
 
SPONSORGottfried
 
COSPNSREnglebright, Jaffee, Thiele, Reyes, Ortiz, Colton, Rosenthal L, Mosley, Carroll, Dinowitz, Griffin, D'Urso, Steck, Lifton, Jacobson, McMahon, Cruz, Galef, Ashby, Lentol, Epstein
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1112, Pub Health L
 
Relates to adding additional chemicals to the list of emerging contaminants; directs the commissioner of health to establish the first list within 30 days.
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A07839 Actions:

BILL NOA07839
 
05/24/2019referred to health
06/05/2019reported referred to rules
01/08/2020referred to health
01/28/2020reported
01/30/2020advanced to third reading cal.359
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A07839 Committee Votes:

HEALTH Chair:Gottfried DATE:06/05/2019AYE/NAY:25/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules
GottfriedAyeRaiaAye
SchimmingerAyeMcDonoughAye
GalefAyeRaAye
DinowitzAyeGarbarinoAye
CahillAyeByrneAye
PaulinAyeByrnesAye
CymbrowitzAyeAshbyAye
GuntherAye
RosenthalAye
HevesiAye
JaffeeAye
SteckAye
AbinantiAye
BraunsteinAye
KimExcused
SolagesAye
BichotteAye
BarronAye
SayeghAye

HEALTH Chair:Gottfried DATE:01/28/2020AYE/NAY:24/0 Action: Favorable
GottfriedAyeByrneAye
SchimmingerExcusedMcDonoughAye
GalefAyeGarbarinoAye
DinowitzAyeByrnesAye
CahillAyeAshbyAye
PaulinExcusedMillerAye
CymbrowitzAyeSalkaAye
GuntherAye
RosenthalAye
HevesiAye
JaffeeAye
SteckAye
AbinantiAye
BraunsteinAye
KimAye
SolagesAye
BichotteAye
BarronAye
SayeghAye

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A07839 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A07839 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A7839
 
SPONSOR: Gottfried (MS)
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing a list of emerging contaminants   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Directs the commissioner to promulgate the first list of emerging containments within 30 days of enactment of this legislation.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill amends section 1112 of the public health law to expand the list of chemicals to be included on the list of emerging contaminants; and requires the commissioner to promulgate such list within 30 days of the effective date. Section 2 of the bill is the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: New York's "emerging contaminant monitoring act," enacted in 2017, was created with the intent to address a federal loophole in emerging contaminant monitoring. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Safe Drinking Water Act, requires periodic testing for 30 unregulated contaminants suspected to be present in drinking water supplies, known as the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR). However, this testing is only required for public water systems serving 10,000 or more residents, and occasionally a limited sample of smaller systems. Because of this loophole, 2.5 million New Yorkers on smaller water systems do not benefit from this testing. By amending the emerging contaminant monitoring act to require the inclusion of chemicals listed on EPA's third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR-3) that have already been detected in water systems in the state, New York will gain a better understanding of occurrence and exposure in the state, including in these smaller communities. There are also chemicals showing up in drinking water supplies in other parts of the country that are being used to replace PFOA, known as GenX chemicals. New York needs to be ahead of the curve to ensure these replacement chemicals, which are suspected to be equally as dangerous as PFOA, are not polluting New York's drinking water supplies. The creation of New York's first emerging contaminant list, which would include most UCMR-3 chemicals and some of the most recent emerging contaminants, would provide the public with critical water quality information, protect public health, and inform the Department of Health on what chemicals need drinking water standards. This testing is a crucial means to begin a proactive approach to regulating drinking water contaminants in New York.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate
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A07839 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7839
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 24, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  establishing  a
          list of emerging contaminants
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 1112 of the  public
     2  health law, as added by section 1 of part M of chapter 57 of the laws of
     3  2017, is amended and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
     4    c.  The commissioner shall, at a minimum, include the following chemi-
     5  cals identified as emerging contaminants in the first list  of  emerging
     6  contaminants:   1,2,3-trichloropropane;   1,3-butadiene;   chloromethane
     7  (methyl chloride); 1,1-dichloroethane;  bromomethane  (methyl  bromide);
     8  chlorodifluoromethene   (HCFC-22);   bromochloromethane   (halon  1011);
     9  1,4-dioxane; vanadium; molybdenum; cobalt; strontium; chromium;  chromi-
    10  um-6;  chlorate; perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS); [and] perfluorooc-
    11  tanoic acid (PFOA); perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA);  perfluorohexanesulf-
    12  onic  acid (PFHxS); perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA); perfluorobutanesul-
    13  fonic acid (PFBS);  hexafluoropropylene  oxide  (HFPO);  2,3,3,3-tetraf-
    14  luoro-2-  (heptaflouropropoxy)  propanoic  acid;  2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-2-
    15  (heptafluoropropoxy) propanoate; heptafluoropropyl  1,2,2,2-tetrafluoro-
    16  ethyl ether; testosterone; and 4-androstene-3,17-dione.
    17    13.  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  the  first list of emerging
    18  contaminants within thirty days of the effective date of  this  subdivi-
    19  sion.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11758-02-9
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