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Senate Bill S8702

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-S8702 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8537
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§37-1001 & 37-1003, En Con L

2025-S8702 (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-S8702 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8702 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8702
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 7, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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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