Helena Nelson, who was the main proponent of the bill, was the co-founder of the state’s House of Representatives, and also served as her husband’s state representative and a state senator from 2003 to 2010; at the time of her death, she was second in line to succeed her husband.

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Richard Hildreth (D-Carmel), had made the same argument:

“I got into my 90s and was so stressed about the bills I needed to get done…I was just dying of stress, and I wasn’t getting anywhere,” Hildreth said. “It wasn’t just ‘oh shit.’ [This is] a real life stress test,” he added. (Source)

Hildreth was ultimately unsuccessful and the bill failed by a single vote.

The measure was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Don Huffines (D-Westfield) earlier this month, prompting a similar response from the state’s attorney general in a letter to the legislature:

The Attorney General has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, seeking to “ensure that medical device manufacturers properly disclose all the risks and effects of their product, as part of the process for obtaining a license.” (Source)

The letter, signed by Attorney General Brian Frosh, says that “misleading or deceptive practices have the potential to cause consumers to mistakenly think that an item may be safer or better when it isn’t.”

But despite complaints about the law from industry groups, the Legislature passed the bill anyway.

And as New York City’s Daily News reports, after this month’s deadly shooting at a Connecticut Planned Parenthood, New Yorkers are again wondering how the state is going to deal with the proliferation of weapons that are increasingly capable of killing innocent people.

The law, which takes effect on January 1, will require all manufacturers of medical devices that are manufactured after January 1, 2016, to report the use of 3-D printers on patients, as well as “any and all health complications that might arise from, or in a patient’s health from an item shipped or sold as a medical device or device made from such an item,” the New York Times reported. The law also imposes a 15-month prison term on the manufacturers, distributors, and dealers of 3-D printers.

The New York Times added that a study on the “use of 3-D printers at