S3179 • 2025

Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products

Energy

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: James Sanders Jr.
Last action: 2026-05-04
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products

Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.

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Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.

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Bill History

2026-05-04 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A1388A
2026-03-11 Senate
RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
2026-03-11 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-03-11 Senate
VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-11 Senate
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 3179B
2026-02-25 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-02-25 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-02-25 Assembly
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2026-01-27 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-01-21 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-01-20 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.101
2026-01-15 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2026-01-15 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 3179A
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2025-04-07 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED FOR A1388
2025-04-07 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.86
2025-03-24 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-03-24 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-03-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2025-03-03 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-02-26 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-02-25 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.396
2025-01-24 Senate
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products
Relates to the definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3179

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 24, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          definition of coal tar and its use in pavement products

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3  of  section  37-0119  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 596 of the laws of
     3  2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. "Coal tar" means a viscous substance obtained  by  the  destructive
     5  distillation  of  coal,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO ETHYLENE CRACKED
     6  RESIDUES OR STEAM CRACKED RESIDUES, and containing levels of  polycyclic
     7  aromatic  hydrocarbons (PAHs) in excess of [ten] ONE thousand milligrams
     8  per kilogram.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03930-01-5