HB 1275 (2026)
Revise legal drinking water standard, protect farmers from PFAS lawsuits
This bill is still active.
Establishes an agricultural PFAS relief fund to assist farmers affected by contamination and imposes a five-year moratorium on the land application of sludge or biosolids.
The House rewrote the bill. The new bill grants immunity to farmers for damages resulting from lawsuits based on harms caused by PFAS present in soil, water, or agricultural products. The bill also requires the Department of Environmental services to develop concentration-based standards for PFAS in biosolids at land-application sites.
The Senate rewrote the bill. Their version of the bill amends the legal definition of "drinking water standard" to allow the use of "an analogous federal standard."
A conference committee of representatives and senators further revised to the legal definition of "drinking water standard" to reference "the PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulations in accordance with 42 U.S.C. section 300g-1 if adopted by the commissioner for use in this chapter." The conference committee bill also keeps the immunity for farmers related to PFAS in soil, water, or agricultural products.
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