A08848 Summary:
| BILL NO | A08848 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S08412 |
| SPONSOR | McDonald |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §37-1005, En Con L | |
| Extends an exemption relating to the use of certain chemicals used in mattresses from regulation for an additional year. | |
A08848 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8848 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 37-1005 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 829 of the laws of 2021, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 5. Textiles made using modacrylic fiber components without antimony 5 trioxide when used internally as a barrier material in a memory foam or 6 gel foam mattress or aramid fibers when used in the fabric that covers 7 the bottom (non-sleep surface) of a mattress that has a sleeping surface 8 on only one side of the mattress. This exemption shall expire on January 9 first, two thousand [twenty-six] twenty-seven. 10 § 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