Mass. Legislature Introduces Another Bill
Update on Massachusetts Cell Phone & Wireless Safety Bills
S. 2431 Resolve relative to disclosure of radio frequency notifications. After investigating wireless radiations for S. 107 as well as S. 108, the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection as well as Professional Licensure introduced their ain nib on Apr 17, 2018. Resolve S. 2431 forms a commission to pick out scientists, doctors, manufacture as well as cardinal populace servants to the tabular array to address EMFs. The nib has been assigned to the Senate Committee on Ways as well as Means. Click here for updates.
February 18, 2018
Two wireless security bills were reported out of commission favorably, as well as two were granted an extension for the commission to examine further. The other bills were sent to study which agency they could last reintroduced during the side past times side legislative session.
- S.1268 Resolve creating a particular commission to examine the wellness impacts of electromagnetic fields will examine non-industry-funded scientific discipline as well as recommend populace protections. This nib was reported out of commission favorably on Feb 2, 2018. Click here for updates.
- H.2030 An Act relative to best management practices for wireless inwards schools as well as populace institutions of higher education requires the Massachusetts Department of Elementary as well as Secondary Education to found wireless applied scientific discipline standards to protect the wellness as well as security of populace schoolhouse students as well as staff. After a populace hearing this nib was discharged to the Joint Committee on Public Health, which reported it out of commission favorably on Feb 7, 2018. Click here for updates.
- S.2079 An Act reducing non-ionizing radiations exposure inwards schools. Originally referred to the Joint Committee on Education. After a populace hearing on September 5, 2017, the nib was discharged to the Joint Committee on Public Health which sent it to study on Feb 7, 2018. Click here for updates.
- S.107 An Act relative to disclosure of radio frequency notifications requires manufacturer warnings last prominently displayed on production packaging of wireless radiation-emitting devices. On Feb 7, 2018, the commission filed an extension to April 9, 2018 to let fourth dimension to cast a commission alongside EMF scientists as well as doctors. Click here for updates.
- S.108 An Act relative to the condom purpose of handheld devices past times children requires specific linguistic communication last included on production packaging. On February 7, 2018, the commission filed an extension to April 9, 2018 to let fourth dimension to cast a commission alongside EMF scientists as well as doctors. Click here for updates.
- S.1864 An Act relative to utilities, smart meters, as well as ratepayers’ rights gives utility customers the no-fee selection of retaining non-wireless radiation-emitting water, gas as well as electrical meters as well as refusing installation of “smart” utility meters.The commission sent this nib to study on Feb 7, 2018. Click here for updates.
March 22, 2017
Five Cell Phone & Wireless Safety Bills introduced inwards Massachusetts Legislature
In 2017, the Massachusetts land legislature introduced v bills to address wireless radiations as well as populace health:
S.107 would require manufacturers’ RF security information to last land visible on jail cellular telephone band production packaging or straight customers to security notifications inside the user manual including information pertaining to RF radiations exposure, compliance alongside RF regulatory requirements, as well as the minimum separation distance betwixt the device as well as the person’s body.
S.108 would require the next linguistic communication to look on jail cellular telephone band production packaging:
"To assure safety, the Federal Government requires that jail cellular telephone phones run across radio frequency (RF) exposure guidelines. If yous behavior or purpose your band inwards a steal or the band is otherwise inwards contact alongside your trunk when the band is on as well as connected to a wireless network, yous may overstep the federal guidelines for exposure to RF radiation. Refer to the instructions inwards your band or user manual for information almost how to purpose your band safely."
This notification is required past times the model jail cellular telephone band “right to know” ordinance that was adopted inwards 2015 inwards Berkeley, California. The Berkeley ordinance allows the retailer the alternative to post the discovery inwards the shop or supply it to the customer. It does non require the discovery to last placed on the cell band production packaging.
The commission volition study whether EMF has a disparate touching on on potentially vulnerable subgroups including children, fetuses, meaning women, the elderly as well as those alongside pre-existing illnesses or impairments. The commission volition investigate whether children are to a greater extent than vulnerable.
The commission volition file a study past times July 31, 2018, as well as recommend legislation needed to protect populace wellness including a recommendation on whether children’s EMF (including Wi-Fi) exposure inwards schools should last eliminated or reduced. No commission fellow member shall accept a fiscal conflict of interest.
S.1864 would give residents the correct to proceed non-RF-emitting water, gas as well as electrical meters instead of "smart" utility meters without having to pay extra fees. Ratepayers volition accept the correct to asking that utility companies take wireless meters as well as install electromechanical analog meters that emit no RF radiation.
H.2030 would require the land regime to educate best practices as well as guidance for the buy as well as installation of wireless meshing service inwards populace schools, colleges as well as universities. The guidelines would prioritize practices that protect the wellness as well as security of students as well as staff.
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