Bill Text: IL HB2955 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Creates the PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Act. Creates the PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Committee for specific purposes. Provides that the Committee shall submit a PFAS Action Plan to the Governor's Office, the General Assembly, and the Environmental Protection Agency no later than one year after the effective date of the Act. Provides that the Committee shall continue to periodically meet and shall annually update the PFAS Action Plan and submit annual reports with certain requirements. Provides for membership of the Committee. Provides that the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Sustainable Technology Center shall provide technical assistance to the Committee. Makes findings and declares policy. Defines terms. Provides that the Act is repealed on December 31, 2044. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-1)

Status: (Passed) 2026-08-21 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0838 [HB2955 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB2955-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning safety.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the PFAS
Wastewater Citizen Protection Act.
Section 5. Findings; policy.
(a) The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Current scientific research suggests that exposure
to certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) may cause adverse human health impacts.
(2) Once released, PFAS do not naturally degrade and
may be difficult and costly to remove from the
environment.
(3) PFAS enter wastewater treatment plants through
wastewater discharges associated with consumer products,
industrial products, and solid waste streams, such as
landfill leachate.
(4) Wastewater agencies do not manufacture,
intentionally use, or sell PFAS.
(5) Landfills do not manufacture, intentionally use,
or sell PFAS.
(6) Wastewater treatment plants, which are generally
owned by wastewater agencies and funded by taxpayers and

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customers within a specific service area, are not designed
for or easily adapted to treat wastewater for PFAS.
(7) Wastewater agencies are incurring monitoring,
staff, and other costs. If wastewater agencies are
required to treat wastewater for PFAS in the future, that
treatment will come at a significant operational and
capital cost that taxpayers and customers must recoup.
(b) It is the policy of the State of Illinois that, as it
relates to PFAS, PFAS elimination, and PFAS mitigation in
wastewater:
(1) The State should follow sound science, use
existing source control regulatory frameworks, avoid
unintended negative consequences to the citizens of the
State, and facilitate funding to eliminate or mitigate
PFAS in wastewater.
(2) The economic impact upon wastewater agencies and
Illinois citizens for the costs to implement any federal
or State policy, rule, or regulation relating to PFAS
monitoring, elimination, and mitigation, including
requirements in permits issued to any wastewater agency,
should be minimized to the extent practicable.
(3) All stakeholders, including wastewater agencies
and their customers, industry, and regulators benefit from
increased understanding and advancements in PFAS
remediation and destruction technology.
(4) Compliance with this Act should not relieve any

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person of responsibility for compliance with the
Environmental Protection Act or any other applicable
federal, State, or local law.
Section 10. Definitions. In this Act:
"Agency" means the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Committee" means the PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection
Committee created under this Act.
"Director" means the Director of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
"PFAS" means perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl
substances. "PFAS" includes PFAS as defined by the United
States Environmental Protection Agency in 40 CFR 705.3 or any
successor regulations.
"State" means the State of Illinois.
"Wastewater agencies" means municipal wastewater agencies;
units of local government organized under the Sanitary
District Act of 1907, North Shore Water Reclamation District
Act, Sanitary District Act of 1917, Metropolitan Water
Reclamation District Act, Sanitary District Act of 1936,
Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974, or Eastern Will
Sanitary District Act; and public utilities that provide water
and wastewater service in Illinois.
Section 15. PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Committee.
(a) The PFAS Wastewater Citizen Protection Committee is

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created within the Agency for the purposes of:
(1) monitoring developments and reviewing data related
to PFAS, PFAS regulation, and PFAS elimination and
mitigation technology for wastewater treatment systems;
(2) determining how to best implement the findings and
policy in Section 5 of this Act, including in relation to
federal statutes and regulations;
(3) determining the range of options to mitigate the
presence of PFAS, including, if necessary, costs to
install treatment technology to reduce PFAS in wastewater
treatment systems and costs for PFAS sampling, analysis,
research, monitoring, and record keeping;
(4) determining how to offset the costs to wastewater
agencies needed to install PFAS elimination and mitigation
technology in wastewater treatment systems by identifying
all potential sources of funding, including indirect
discharge fees, State and federal funding, and
manufacturers and commercial and industrial users of PFAS;
(5) making recommendations regarding policies,
including legislation and rulemaking, necessary to
implement the findings and policy in Section 5 of this
Act; and
(6) making recommendations regarding the funding of
elimination and mitigation technology for wastewater
treatment systems and recovering taxpayer and customer
costs for PFAS.

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(b) No later than one year after the effective date of this
Act, the Committee shall issue a report containing a PFAS
Action Plan based on the purposes stated in subsection (a) of
this Section. The report shall be submitted to the Governor's
Office, the General Assembly, and the Agency.
(c) The Committee shall monitor the status of and, if
necessary, advocate for the execution of the PFAS Action Plan
submitted with its report under subsection (b) of this
Section.
(d) The Committee shall continue to periodically meet
after submittal of the PFAS Action Plan under subsection (b)
of this Section. The Committee shall annually update the PFAS
Action Plan, and shall submit a report annually to the
Governor's Office, the General Assembly, and the Agency with
any updates to the PFAS Action Plan and a summary of:
(1) the latest developments in related science and
technology, as well as the latest developments in
approaches to PFAS elimination and mitigation in
wastewater;
(2) any updated policy recommendations the Committee
feels necessary to implement the findings and policy in
Section 5 of this Act;
(3) any cost updates for addressing any policy
recommendations the Committee feels necessary to implement
the findings and policy in Section 5 of this Act; and
(4) any updated developments or recommendations

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regarding the identification of potential sources of
funding to offset the costs to wastewater agencies.
Section 20. Committee membership. The Committee shall be
composed of the following members:
(1) the Governor or the Governor's designee, who shall
serve as chairperson;
(2) the Director or the Director's designee;
(3) one member appointed by the President of the
Senate;
(4) one member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
Senate;
(5) one member appointed by the Speaker of the House
of Representatives;
(6) one member appointed by the Minority Leader of the
House of Representatives; and
(7) the following members appointed by the Director:
(A) 2 members who are representatives of a
wastewater agency with a service population of 25,000
or less;
(B) 2 members who are representatives of a
wastewater agency with a service population of more
than 25,000 but less than or equal to 125,000;
(C) 2 members who are representatives of a
wastewater agency with a service population of more
than 125,000;

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(D) one member who is a representative of a
statewide organization representing wastewater
agencies;
(E) one member who is a representative of a
statewide organization representing publicly owned
drinking water agencies;
(F) one member who is a researcher from a
university in the Great Lakes region who specializes
in PFAS;
(G) one member who is a representative of a public
utility that provides water and wastewater services in
Illinois;
(H) one member who is a representative of a
statewide organization representing the solid waste
and recycling industry; and
(I) one member who is a representative of a
statewide organization representing the manufacturing
industry.
Appointments to the Committee shall be made within 30 days
after the effective date of this Act. The Committee shall meet
at the call of the chairperson. Committee members shall serve
without compensation. If a vacancy occurs in the Committee
membership, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as
the original appointment for the remainder of the Committee.
Section 25. Committee technical assistance. The Prairie

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Research Institute's Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
shall provide technical assistance to the Committee.
Section 85. Applicable federal, State, and local laws.
Compliance with this Act does not relieve any person of
responsibility for compliance with the Environmental
Protection Act or any other applicable federal, State, or
local law.
Section 90. Repeal. This Act is repealed on December 31,
2044.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.