Assembly Bill A8537

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the sale of any children's product, upholstered furniture or mattress that contains textile fiberglass

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8537 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§37-1001 & 37-1003, En Con L

2025-A8537 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the sale of any children's product, upholstered furniture or mattress that contains textile fiberglass; prohibits any custom upholsterer from repairing, reupholstering, recovering, restoring or renewing upholstered furniture or reupholstered furniture using a replacement component that contains textile fiberglass.

2025-A8537 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8537
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   prohibiting the sale of any children's product, upholstered  furniture
   or mattress that contains textile fiberglass

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 37-1001 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14.   "TEXTILE  FIBERGLASS"  MEANS  TEXTILE  YARNS  WHOSE  COMPOSITION
 INCLUDES ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS GLASS FILAMENTS IN A FORM  SUITABLE  FOR
 KNITTING,  WEARING,  OR OTHERWISE INTERTWINING TO FORM A TEXTILE FABRIC,
 BUT SHALL EXCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) THREAD OR FIBER USED FOR STITCHING MATTRESS  COMPONENTS  TOGETHER;
 AND
   (B)  YARNS  IN  WHICH THE GLASS FILAMENTS ARE CORE-SPUN OR SHEATHED BY
 ANOTHER FIBER.
   § 2. Section 37-1003 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
 by adding two new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
   3.  BEGINNING  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, NO PERSON SHALL
 SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ANY NEW, NOT  PREVIOUSLY
 OWNED,  CHILDREN'S  PRODUCT,  UPHOLSTERED  FURNITURE  OR  MATTRESS, THAT
 CONTAINS OR A CONSTITUENT COMPONENT OF WHICH  CONTAINS,  TEXTILE  FIBER-
 GLASS.
   4.  BEGINNING  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, A CUSTOM UPHOL-
 STERER IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL NOT REPAIR, REUPHOLSTER,  RECOVER,
 RESTORE  OR RENEW UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE OR REUPHOLSTERED FURNITURE USING
 A REPLACEMENT COMPONENT THAT CONTAINS, OR A  CONSTITUENT  COMPONENT,  OF
 WHICH CONTAINS, TEXTILE FIBERGLASS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13138-01-5

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