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BILL NUMBER:A6093A

TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing Amanda's law requiring certain
residences to have installed an operable carbon monoxide detector

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This legislation would mandate that ALL family dwellings install carbon monoxide detectors.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends the standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors to require that
they be installed in all residential dwellings.

JUSTIFICATION:
Current law requires residential dwellings that are constructed or offered for sale after
July 30, 2002 to be updated with a carbon monoxide detector. This legislation would remove
the construction and sale provisions, leaving it a new requirement that all homes regardless
of construction or sale date be outfitted with a carbon monoxide detector.

On January 17th, 2009 Amanda Hansen, a 16 year old from West Seneca, New York,
died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective boiler while at a sleepover at 
her friend's house.

Go to: http://www.dos.state.ny.us/code/COAlarm.htm for more information.

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