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LD1557 • 2025

An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides

An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides

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Sponsor
Representative Amy Arata
Last action
2025-04-22
Official status
On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland The Senate INSISTED on REFERENCE to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
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An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides

An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides Sponsor: Representative Amy Arata

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides Sponsor: Representative Amy Arata

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-22 Senate

    On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland The Senate INSISTED on REFERENCE to the Committee on AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-04-17 House

    The House INSISTED on REFERENCE to the Committee on ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES . ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides
Sponsor:
Representative Amy Arata

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1557
H.P. 1015 House of Representatives, April 10, 2025
An Act to Ensure Uniformity in the Regulation of Perfluoroalkyl
and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Pesticides
Reference to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry suggested and
ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative ARATA of New Gloucester.
Cosponsored by Representatives: COOPER of Windham, CRAY of Palmyra, DILL of Old
Town, GUERRETTE of Caribou, HEPLER of Woolwich, JACKSON of Oxford, Senator:
BERNARD of Aroostook.

Page 1 - 132LR2372(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §604, sub-§22-A, as enacted by PL 2021, c. 673, §1, is amended
3 to read:
422-A. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. "Perfluoroalkyl
5 and polyfluoroalkyl substances" or "PFAS" has the same meaning as in Title 32, section
6 1732, subsection 5‑A 40 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 705.3, as amended.
7Sec. 2. 38 MRSA §1614, sub-§5, ¶H is enacted to read:
8 H. Notwithstanding subsection 1, paragraph F, for purposes of the prohibition on the
9 sale of pesticide products containing intentionally added PFAS under this subsection,
10 "perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances" or "PFAS" has the same meaning as
11 in Title 7, section 604, subsection 22-A and "pesticide" has the same meaning as in
12 Title 7, section 604, subsection 25.
13SUMMARY
14 This bill changes the definition of "perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances,"
15 also referred to as PFAS, in the Maine Pesticide Control Act of 1975 to align with the
16 United States Environmental Protection Agency's definition of "PFAS." The bill also
17 applies this definition of PFAS for the purposes of the prohibition on the sale of pesticide
18 products containing intentionally added PFAS.
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