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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8702
IN SENATE
January 7, 2026
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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.
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