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MN SF2330
Bill
Status
5/9/2016
Primary Sponsor
John Marty
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AI Summary
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Prohibits manufacturers and wholesalers from selling children's products, upholstered residential furniture, residential textiles, and mattresses containing 10 specified flame-retardant chemicals in amounts exceeding 1,000 parts per million, effective July 1, 2018.
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Requires retailers to comply with the same prohibition by July 1, 2019.
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Adds six additional banned flame-retardants to the existing prohibition: tetrabromobisphenol A, antimony trioxide, tetrabromo phthalate (TBPH), tetrabromo benzoate (TBB), chlorinated paraffins, and tris(1-chloro-2-propyl)phosphate (TCPP).
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Prohibits manufacturers from replacing banned chemicals with alternative chemicals identified by state, federal, or international agencies as harmful to fetal or child development, cancer-causing, endocrine-disrupting, or toxic to the nervous, immune, or organ systems.
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Exempts previously owned products from the prohibition.
Legislative Description
Flame retardant chemical prohibitions expansion
Last Action
Senate file first reading, referred to Health and Human Services Reform
5/9/2016