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Prohibiting the manufacture and sale of food packaging containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, making penalties applicable, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Business & economyEnvironment & natural resourcesPFAS & chemicals
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2021
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 19, 2021
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Iowa will no longer allow the sale of food packaging that contains certain chemicals known as PFAS. Retailers and wholesalers can still sell packaging they already bought or brought into the state before the law starts. People who break this rule could face a fine or a short time in jail.1
Read the official explanation
This bill prohibits the sale of food packaging that contains perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances in Iowa. The bill makes an exception for new food packaging that is otherwise subject to the prohibition but was imported into the state or S.F. otherwise purchased or acquired by a retailer or wholesaler for sale or distribution in the state prior to January 1, 2023. A violation of the provisions in the bill is a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days and a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855. The bill takes effect January 1, 2023.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 19, 2021. It hasn’t reported yet.
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 386 Prohibiting the manufacturing and sale of food packaging containing perfluoroalkyl and pol…88th General Assembly · In committee · similarCleared committee
Matched by wording or an identical title.