*HB1399.1*
January 18, 2024
HOUSE BILL No. 1399
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DIGEST OF HB 1399 (Updated January 17, 2024 5:29 pm - DI 150)
Citations Affected: IC 13-11; IC 13-13.
Synopsis: PFAS chemicals. Defines "PFAS chemicals" and requires
the environmental rules board to use the definition in certain rules
concerning industrial processes and research and development.
Effective: July 1, 2024.
Lindauer
January 11, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.
January 18, 2024, amended, reported — Do Pass.
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Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1399
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
environmental law.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
1 SECTION 1. IC 13-11-2-163.2 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA
2 CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS
3 [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2024]: Sec. 163.2. (a) "PFAS chemicals", for
4 purposes of IC 13-13-8-16, means:
5 (1) a non-polymeric perfluoroalkyl substance;
6 (2) a non-polymeric saturated polyfluoroalkyl substance; or
7 (3) side-chain fluorinated polymers;
8 a molecule of which contains at least two (2) fully fluorinated
9 sequential carbon atoms.
10 (b) The term does not include gases and substances that become
11 gases in use.
12 SECTION 2. IC 13-13-8-16 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE
13 AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY
14 1, 2024]: Sec. 16. The board shall use the definition of "PFAS
15 chemicals" set forth in IC 13-11-2-163.2 when adopting a rule
16 concerning:
17 (1) perfluoroalkyl substances; or
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1 (2) polyfluoroalkyl substances;
2 that are used or produced in industrial processes or research and
3 development.
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COMMITTEE REPORT
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Environmental Affairs, to which
was referred House Bill 1399, has had the same under consideration
and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
Page 1, delete lines 6 through 11, begin a new line block indented
and insert:
"(2) a non-polymeric saturated polyfluoroalkyl substance; or
(3) side-chain fluorinated polymers;
a molecule of which contains at least two (2) fully fluorinated
sequential carbon atoms.
(b) The term does not include gases and substances that become
gases in use.".
and when so amended that said bill do pass.
(Reference is to HB 1399 as introduced.)
MORRISON
Committee Vote: yeas 7, nays 5.
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