S257 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Authorizes a study on lithium-ion battery fires and prevention to review the severity of lithium-ion battery fires, including what specific components of the battery causes severe fires; examine the effectiveness of lithium fireproof blankets on such fires; examine the current measures of safety implemented by fire departments across New York in relation to lithium-ion battery fires; requires a report to the governor and the legislature; makes related provisions.
- Title
- Authorizes a study on lithium-ion battery fires and prevention
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-03-16
- In committee
- Governmental Operations
- Introduced
- 2024-12-23
- Same as
- A5100
- Law section
- Fire Prevention
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Governmental Operations NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A5100 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Finance, 2026-03-05 First reading
- Finance, 2025-03-04 First reading