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A8537 • 2025

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

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

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
David Weprin
Last action
2026-05-20
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

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

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits the sale of any children's product, upholstered furniture or mattress that contains textile fiberglass 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, fibrous glass or glass wool.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-20 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES

  2. 2026-05-20 Assembly

    REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES

  3. 2026-05-12 Assembly

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

  4. 2026-05-12 Assembly

    PRINT NUMBER 8537A

  5. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

  6. 2025-05-20 Assembly

    REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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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:

     1    Section 1. Section 37-1001 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
     3    14.   "TEXTILE  FIBERGLASS"  MEANS  TEXTILE  YARNS  WHOSE  COMPOSITION
     4  INCLUDES ONE OR MORE CONTINUOUS GLASS FILAMENTS IN A FORM  SUITABLE  FOR
     5  KNITTING,  WEARING,  OR OTHERWISE INTERTWINING TO FORM A TEXTILE FABRIC,
     6  BUT SHALL EXCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
     7    (A) THREAD OR FIBER USED FOR STITCHING MATTRESS  COMPONENTS  TOGETHER;
     8  AND
     9    (B)  YARNS  IN  WHICH THE GLASS FILAMENTS ARE CORE-SPUN OR SHEATHED BY
    10  ANOTHER FIBER.
    11    § 2. Section 37-1003 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
    12  by adding two new subdivisions 3 and 4 to read as follows:
    13    3.  BEGINNING  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, NO PERSON SHALL
    14  SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ANY NEW, NOT  PREVIOUSLY
    15  OWNED,  CHILDREN'S  PRODUCT,  UPHOLSTERED  FURNITURE  OR  MATTRESS, THAT
    16  CONTAINS OR A CONSTITUENT COMPONENT OF WHICH  CONTAINS,  TEXTILE  FIBER-
    17  GLASS.
    18    4.  BEGINNING  JULY  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, A CUSTOM UPHOL-
    19  STERER IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL NOT REPAIR, REUPHOLSTER,  RECOVER,
    20  RESTORE  OR RENEW UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE OR REUPHOLSTERED FURNITURE USING
    21  A REPLACEMENT COMPONENT THAT CONTAINS, OR A  CONSTITUENT  COMPONENT,  OF
    22  WHICH CONTAINS, TEXTILE FIBERGLASS.
    23    § 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