S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8412
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
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