New York A 1680: Relates to permitting the sale or distribution of expanded polystyrene containers that are designed or intended to be used for cold storage for certain purposes

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A01680 Summary:

BILL NOA01680 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00773

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SPONSOREpstein

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Amd §27-3005, En Con L (as proposed in S.4414-A & A.4943-A)

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Relates to permitting the sale or distribution of expanded polystyrene containers that are designed or intended to be used for cold storage for certain tissues, temperature sensitive health and safety samples, cultures, and reagents, and microbial cultures.

Go to top A01680 Actions:

BILL NOA01680 

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01/14/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/22/2025reported referred to rules

01/22/2025reported 

01/22/2025rules report cal.56

01/22/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.56

02/03/2025substituted by s773

&nbspS00773 AMEND= KRUEGER

&nbsp01/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp01/13/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.47

&nbsp01/14/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp01/14/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp01/14/2025referred to environmental conservation

&nbsp02/03/2025substituted for a1680

&nbsp02/03/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.56

&nbsp02/03/2025passed assembly

&nbsp02/03/2025returned to senate

&nbsp02/12/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp02/14/2025SIGNED CHAP.83

Go to topA01680 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Chair:Glick 
DATE:01/22/2025AYE/NAY:30/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules GlickAyeSimpsonAye

ColtonAyeSmullenAye

OtisAyeTagueAye

WilliamsAyeManktelowAye

BarrettAyeBrownAye

CarrollAyeLemondesAye

EpsteinAyeSlaterAye

McMahonAyeBaileyAye

BurdickAyeSempolinskiAye

LunsfordAye

KellesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

SeptimoAye

LeeAye

LevenbergAye

SimoneAye

AndersonAye

ConradAye

LasherAye

SchiavoniAye

KassayAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:01/22/2025AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaExcused

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA01680 Floor&nbspVotes:

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Go to topA01680 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1680

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 permitting the sale or distribution of expanded polystyrene containers
 that are designed or intended to be used for cold storage for certain
 purposes

 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 1 of section 27-3005 of the
 2 environmental conservation law, as added by a chapter of the laws of
 3 2024 amending the environmental conservation law relating to prohibiting
 4 the sale or distribution of expanded polystyrene containers that are
 5 designed or intended to be used for cold storage, as proposed in legis-
 6 lative bills numbers S. 4414-A and A. 4943-A, is amended to read as
 7 follows:
 8 (c) Expanded polystyrene containers that are not wholly encapsulated
 9 or encased within a more durable container and are [designed or intended
 10 to be] used for cold storage for:
 11 (i) [for] drugs[,] and medical devices[, and biological materials] as
 12 defined in the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 301
 13 et seq.); [or]
 14 (ii) animal biologics, including vaccines, bacterins, antisera, diag-
 15 nostic kits, and other products of biological origin, and other packag-
 16 ing materials regulated by the United States department of agriculture
 17 under the virus, serum, toxin act (21 U.S.C. 151-159), including
 18 vaccines[.];
 19 (iii) tissues as defined in section forty-three hundred sixty of the
 20 public health law or biological products as defined in the federal
 21 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Sec 262);

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02914-01-5

 A. 1680 2

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