Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Relating to: banning products containing intentionally added PFAS and providing a penalty. (FE)
Business Environmental protection Natural resources department of — Administration Sales
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Beginning January 1, 2032, this bill prohibits the sale or distribution of certain products that contain intentionally added perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including food packaging, cleaning products, cosmetics, and textile furnishings. The bill prohibits the sale or distribution of all products containing intentionally added PFAS beginning January 1, 2038. The bill provides certain exemptions to this ban, including by allowing the Department of Natural Resources to identify, by rule, products in which the use of PFAS is an unavoidable use.
The bill allows DNR to require manufacturers to test certain products for PFAS. A person that violates the prohibition on sales and distribution is subject to a civil forfeiture of $100 for each violating product, for each day that the violation continues.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Palmeri (D)
2 cosponsors
Habush Sinykin (D) , Pfaff (D)
Full history
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Introduced by Representative Palmeri; cosponsored by Senators Pfaff and Habush Sinykin
- Mar 19, 2026 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Environment
- Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1