Senate Bill S736

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving lithium-ion batteries

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-S736 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1020
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156-a, Exec L (as proposed in S.8742 & A.9337)

2025-S736 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the definition of lithium-ion battery in relation to hazardous materials emergency response training for incidents involving such batteries.

2025-S736 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S736 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    736
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   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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