Assembly Bill A8848

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to extending the exemption of certain chemicals used in mattresses from regulation for an additional year

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8848 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8412
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §37-1005, En Con L

2025-A8848 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends an exemption relating to the use of certain chemicals used in mattresses from regulation for an additional year.

2025-A8848 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8848
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   extending the exemption of certain chemicals used in  mattresses  from
   regulation for an additional year

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5  of  section  37-1005  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  added  by  chapter  829  of the laws of 2021, is
 amended to read as follows:
   5. Textiles made using modacrylic fiber  components  without  antimony
 trioxide  when used internally as a barrier material in a memory foam or
 gel foam mattress or aramid fibers when used in the fabric  that  covers
 the bottom (non-sleep surface) of a mattress that has a sleeping surface
 on only one side of the mattress. This exemption shall expire on January
 first, two thousand [twenty-six] TWENTY-SEVEN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13317-01-5

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