S8702 • 2025

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: Michelle Hinchey
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Senate 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

2026-05-19 Senate
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2026-05-19 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 8702A
2026-01-07 Senate
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
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                                          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:

     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