S3765-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
• May 17, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO COMMERCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL BUSINESS
• Mar 3, 2011: REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

S3765-2011 Meetings

S3765-2011 Votes

S3765-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3765

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the general obligations law, in relation to contracts relating
or referring to hydraulic fracturing

PURPOSE OF BILL:
To require that no contract relating or referring to hydraulic
fracturing shall prohibit the disclosure, by any party, of the
chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends the general obligations law by adding a new section
5-336 which defines the terms "hydraulic fracturing,"
"hydro-fracturing" and "hydro-fracking" and stipulates that no
contract relating or referring to hydraulic fracturing,
hydro-fracturing, and hydro-fracking shall prohibit the disclosure,
by any party, of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing or
diminish payment to any contracting patty as a result of the
inclusion of a provision disclosing the chemicals used in hydraulic
fracturing.

Section 2. Effective date

JUSTIFICATION:
Those landowners who enter into contracts relating or referring to
hydraulic fracturing should not have to risk breaching their contract
by disclosing the chemicals involved in the process.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S3765-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3765
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 March 3, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  BONACIC,  ADDABBO,  KRUGER, LAVALLE, OPPENHEIMER,
 RANZENHOFER, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print
 ed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 

AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in  relation  to  contracts
 relating or referring to hydraulic fracturing
 

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

 

Section 1. The general obligations law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 5-336 to read as follows:

 

S  5-336.  HYDRAULIC FRACTURING CONTRACTS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
 SECTION,  THE  TERM  "HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING,"   "HYDRO-FRACTURING"   AND
 "HYDRO-FRACKING"  SHALL MEAN FRACTURING OF ROCK BY MAN-MADE FLUID-DRIVEN
 FRACTURING TECHNIQUES FOR THE PURPOSE OF STIMULATING NATURAL GAS OR  OIL
 WELL PRODUCTION.
 2.   NO  CONTRACT  RELATING  OR  REFERRING  TO  HYDRAULIC  FRACTURING,
 HYDRO-FRACTURING OR HYDRO-FRACKING SHALL:

 A. PROHIBIT THE DISCLOSURE, BY ANY PARTY, OF  THE  CHEMICALS  USED  IN
 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; OR
 B. DIMINISH PAYMENT TO ANY CONTRACTING PARTY AS A RESULT OF THE INCLU
 SION  OF A PROVISION DISCLOSING THE CHEMICALS USED IN HYDRAULIC FRACTUR
 ING.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08764-01-1

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