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