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Timestamp: 2020-05-27 11:59:33
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§23', '§ 23', '§23', '§ 23', '§23', '§23']

Senate Bill #166 (2017)
AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - CHILD PRODUCTS AND UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and distribution of residential upholstered children's products that contain certain amounts of bromide or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
2017-06-20: Scheduled for consideration (06/22/2017) [Show]
2017-06-22: Committee recommends passage
2017-06-28: Senate read and passed
2017-06-29: Referred to House H.E.W.
2017-06-29: Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (06/29/2017) [Show]
2017-06-30: Referred to House H.E.W.
2017-09-19: Placed on House Calendar (09/19/2017) [Show]
2017-09-19: Placed on Senate Calendar (09/19/2017) [Show]
2017-09-19: Senate passed Sub A as amended in concurrence
2017-09-19: House passed Sub A as amended (floor amendment)
2017-09-25: Transmitted to Governor
2017-10-03: Effective without Governor's signature
2017 – S 0166
2017 – S 0166 SUBSTITUTE A AS AMENDED
LC000319
LC000319/SUB A
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - CHILD PRODUCTS AND UPHOLSTERED
Introduced By: Senators Satchell, Coyne, Goldin, Archambault, and Sosnowski
SECTION 1. Chapter 23-26 of the General Laws entitled "Bedding and Upholstered Furniture" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:
23-26-3.1. Sale prohibition.
(a) Beginning on July 1, 2018, no manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, knowingly sell, offer for sale, or distribute for use in this state any residential upholstered bedding or furniture, which contains one hundred parts per million (100 ppm), or greater of any organohalogen flame retardant chemical. This class includes any chemical containing the element bromine or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
(a) Beginning on July 1, 2019, no manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, knowingly sell, offer for sale, or distribute for use in this state any residential upholstered bedding or furniture, which contains one hundred parts per million (100 ppm), or greater of any organohalogen flame retardant chemical. This class includes any chemical containing the element bromine or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
(b) A manufacturer of products that are banned from sale under this section, must notify persons or entities that sell the manufactured products in this state about the provisions of this section no less than ninety (90) days prior to the effective date of the ban.
SECTION 2. Sections 23-26-25 and 23-26-27 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-26 entitled "Bedding and Upholstered Furniture" are hereby amended to read as follows:
23-26-25. Rules, regulations, and findings – Suspension or revocation of permits.
(a) The director is hereby authorized and empowered to make general rules and regulations and specific rulings, demands, and findings for the enforcement of this chapter, in addition hereto and not inconsistent herewith. The director may suspend or revoke any permit or registration for violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, ruling, or demand made pursuant to the authority granted by this chapter.
(b) The director of the department of health shall investigate and enforce the provisions of §23-26-3.1, and promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary to enforce it.
23-26-27. Penalty for violations.
(1) Makes, remakes, renovates, sterilizes, prepares, sells, or offers for sale, exchange, or lease any article of bedding as defined by § 23-26-1, not properly tagged as required by this chapter; or
(2) Uses in the making, remaking, renovating, or preparing of the article of bedding or in preparing cotton or other material therefor which has been used as a mattress, pillow, or bedding in any public or private hospital, or which has been used by or about any person having an infectious or contagious disease, and which after such use has not been sterilized and approved for use, by the director of business regulation; or
(3) Counterfeits or imitates any stamp or permit issued under this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months or both.
(4) Any person or entity that violates the provisions of §23-26-3.1 shall be civilly fined not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the first violation, and up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each subsequent violation.
SECTION 3. Sections 23-75-3 and 23-75-8 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-75 entitled "Children's Product Safety Act" are hereby amended to read as follows:
23-75-3. Unsafe children's products – Prohibition.
(e) Beginning on July 1, 2018, no manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, knowingly sell, offer for sale, or distribute for use in this state any residential upholstered bedding or furniture, which contains one hundred parts per million (100 ppm), or greater of any organohalogen flame retardant chemical. This class includes any chemical containing the element bromine or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
(f) A manufacturer of products that are banned from sale under this section, must notify persons or entities that sell the manufactured products in this state about the provisions of this section no less than ninety (90) days prior to the effective date of the ban.
23-75-8. Penalty.
(a) A commercial user who willfully and knowingly violates § 23-75-6 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Any person or entity that violates the provisions of §23-75-3(a) shall be civilly fined not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the first violation, and up to ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each subsequent violation.
SECTION 4. Chapter 23-75 of the General Laws entitled "Children's Product Safety Act" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:
23-75-9. Enforcement.
The director of the department of health shall investigate and enforce the provisions of §23-75-3(e), and promulgate rules and regulations deemed necessary to enforce it.
SECTION 5. This act shall take effect upon passage.
SECTION 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
This act would prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of residential upholstered furniture and upholstered bedding and children's products that contain certain amounts of a chemical containing the element bromide or chlorine bonded to carbon that is added to a plastic, foam, or textile.
This act would take effect upon passage. ======== LC000319 ========
This act would take effect July 1, 2019. ======== LC000319/SUB A ========
June 28, 2017 at 6:17pm
September 19, 2017 at 8:27pm
Yeas: 63 / Nays: 0 / Not voting: 12 / Recused: 0
Rep. O'Grady NV
September 19, 2017 at 8:28pm
Yeas: 62 / Nays: 0 / Not voting: 13 / Recused: 0
September 19, 2017 at 10:08pm
Sen. Lombardo NV