2025 Legislative Session Dates
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Key Takeaways:

  • Over 350 PFAS-related bills have been introduced across 39 states in 2025, with legislation enacted in five states (Illinois, Virginia, Maine, New York, and New Mexico), demonstrating significant legislative interest.
  • States are taking diverse approaches to PFAS regulation, from Illinois establishing maximum contaminant levels for water supplies and Virginia modifying discharge permits, to Maine creating agricultural cleanup programs and New York banning PFAS in firefighting personal protective equipment. New Mexico enacted the most comprehensive PFAS ban, phasing out intentionally added PFAS in consumer products from 2027 to 2032.
  • As the federal EPA pulls back on PFAS regulation, states are filling the policy void with legislation targeting consumer products, firefighting foam, water quality standards, remediation efforts, and emissions controls.



The 2025 legislative session has so far produced a large volume of PFAS-related bill activity. In the past few months, over 350 bills addressing PFAS have been introduced throughout 39 states. However, as of May 14th, only nine of these bills have been enacted in five states (Illinois, Virginia, Maine, New York, and New Mexico) with eight bills throughout five states (New York, Washington, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Oregon) passing both houses of their respective state legislatures and awaiting to be enrolled or signed into law.    







Notable PFAS Bills in 2025

Here are a few key highlights:

  • In March, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D) signed into law SB 727, which will require the state’s Pollution Control Board to establish maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for the state’s community water supplies. 

  • In early April, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signed into law HB 2050 that will require, for facilities that discharge PFAS in excess of the maximum contaminant level (MCL) established for PFAS in drinking water, the state Department of Environmental Quality to modify the facility’s discharge permit to require that a facility does not exceed that maximum MCL. 

  • Maine’s Governor Janet Mills (D) signed into law LD 130, which will establish a PFAS response program to clean up and mitigate hazards posed by PFAS that impact the agriculture industry. 

  • In New York, budget bills NY S 3008 and NY A 3008 prohibit the manufacture and sale of firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally added PFAS by 2028.  

  • Lastly, in New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed into law a comprehensive PFAS ban bill, NM HB 212, which beginning in 2027, will ban the sale of cookware, food packaging, dental floss, juvenile products, and firefighting foam containing intentionally added PFAS. In 2028, the law will ban the sale of carpets and rugs, cleaning products, cosmetics, fabric treatments, feminine hygiene products, textiles, textile furnishings, ski wax, and upholstered furniture containing intentionally added PFAS. By 2032, all products containing intentionally added PFAS will be banned for sale unless the state’s Environmental Improvement Board adopts a rule specifying that the use of PFAS in a product is a currently unavoidable use.  

We’ll likely see more movement on PFAS bills this year. Bills impacting consumer products, firefighting foam, water quality standards, PFAS remediation, and PFAS emissions, will continue to be at the forefront of this movement. As the federal Environmental Protection Agency pulls back on regulating PFAS, states are moving to fill the void. 

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