Bill Text: CA AB1059 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 1059

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Bill Title: Product safety: consumer products: textile fiberglass and covered flame retardant chemicals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 461, Statutes of 2023. [AB1059 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1059-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1059

Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman

February 15, 2023

An act to add Article 6 (commencing with Section 108670) to Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to product safety.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1059, as introduced, Friedman. Product safety: consumer products: fiberglass.

Existing law prohibits a person, including a manufacturer, from selling or distributing in commerce in this state any new, not previously owned, juvenile product, as defined, that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as defined.

This bill would prohibit a person, including a manufacturer, from selling or distributing in commerce in this state any new juvenile product, as defined, mattress, or upholstered furniture that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, fiberglass. The bill would prohibit a custom upholsterer from repairing, reupholstering, recovering, restoring, or renewing any mattress, juvenile product, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture using a replacement component that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, fiberglass.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Article 6 (commencing with Section 108670) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

Article 6. Consumer Products Containing Fiberglass

108670.

(a) For purposes of this section, “juvenile product” has the same meaning as in Section 108945.

(b) A person, including, but not limited to, a manufacturer, shall not sell or distribute in commerce in this state any new juvenile product, mattress, or upholstered furniture that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, fiberglass.

(c) A custom upholsterer shall not repair, reupholster, recover, restore, or renew any mattress, juvenile product, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture using a replacement component that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, fiberglass.