New York S 8702: Prohibits the sale of any children's product, upholstered furniture or mattress that contains textile fiberglass

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S08702 Summary:

BILL NOS08702A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08537-A

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SPONSORHINCHEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§37-0905, 37-0909, 37-1001, 37-1011 & 71-3703, add §37-1004, En Con L

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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.

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BILL NOS08702A

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01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

05/19/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

05/19/2026PRINT NUMBER 8702A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8702--A

 IN SENATE

 January 7, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
 and recommitted to said committee

 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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 37-0905 of the
 2 environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new subparagraph
 3 (viii) to read as follows:
 4 (viii) Fibrous glass or glass wool (CAS 65997-17-3)
 5 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 37-0909 of the environmental conserva-
 6 tion law, as amended by section 1 of subpart AA of part XX of chapter 55
 7 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
 8 1. (a) Effective January first, two thousand twenty-three, no person
 9 shall distribute, sell or offer for sale in this state a children's
 10 product in which tris (1, 3 dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (CAS
 11 13674-87-8), benzene (CAS 71-43-2),[,] or asbestos (CAS 1332-21-4) is
 12 intentionally added.
 13 (b) Effective December first, two thousand twenty-nine, no person
 14 shall distribute, sell or offer for sale in this state a children's
 15 product in which fibrous glass or glass wool (CAS 65997-17-3) is inten-
 16 tionally added.
 17 [This provision] 1-a. The provisions of subdivision one of this
 18 section shall not apply: (a) to a children's product solely based on its
 19 containing an enclosed battery or enclosed electronic components; (b)
 20 where state regulation of children's products is preempted by federal
 21 law; (c) where the chemical is present as a trace contaminant; or (d) to
 22 an inaccessible component of a children's product that during reason-
 23 able, foreseeable use and abuse of the product would not come into
 24 direct contact with a child's skin or mouth, as determined by the
 25 department. The commissioner may exempt a children's product from this

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13138-03-6

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 1 prohibition if, in the commissioner's judgment, the lack of availability
 2 of the children's product could pose an unreasonable risk to public
 3 health, safety or welfare.
 4 § 3. Section 37-1001 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 5 by adding a new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
 6 14. "Textile fiberglass" means textile yarns whose composition
 7 includes one or more continuous glass filaments in a form suitable for
 8 knitting, wearing, or otherwise intertwining to form a textile fabric,
 9 but shall exclude the following:
 10 (a) thread or fiber used for stitching mattress components together;
 11 and
 12 (b) yarns in which the glass filaments are core-spun or sheathed by
 13 another fiber.
 14 § 4. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
 15 section 37-1004 to read as follows:
 16 § 37-1004. Textile fiberglass.
 17 1. Beginning December first, two thousand twenty-nine, no person shall
 18 sell