New York A 8537: Prohibits the sale of any children's product, upholstered furniture or mattress that contains textile fiberglass

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A08537 Summary:

BILL NOA08537A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08702-A

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SPONSORWeprin

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COSPNSRSayegh, Shimsky, Simon, Otis

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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.

Go to top A08537 Actions:

BILL NOA08537A

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05/20/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

05/12/2026amend and recommit to environmental conservation

05/12/2026print number 8537a

05/20/2026reported referred to codes

05/20/2026reported referred to rules

Go to topA08537 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/20/2026AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes GlickAyeSimpsonAye

ColtonAyeSmullenAye

OtisAyeTagueAye

WilliamsAyeManktelowAye

BarrettAyeBrownAye

CarrollAyeLemondesAye

McMahonAyeSlaterAye

BurdickAyeBaileyAye

LunsfordAyeSempolinskiAye

KellesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

SeptimoExcused

LeeExcused

LevenbergAye

SimoneAye

AndersonAye

ConradAye

LasherAye

SchiavoniAye

KassayAye

KayAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/20/2026AYE/NAY:18/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye

PowersAyeReillyAye

LavineAyeMikulinExcused

WeprinAyeTannousisExcused

HevesiAyeAngelinoAye

SeawrightAyeMolitorAye

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

BoresExcused

ReyesAbsent

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

TaylorAye

Go to topA08537 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA08537 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 8537--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 20, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, SAYEGH, SHIMSKY, SIMON -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted
 to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with
 Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13138-02-6

 A. 8537--A 2

 1 an inaccessible component of a children's product that during reason-
 2 able, foreseeable use and abuse of the product would not come in