---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024"
description: "Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 241"
citation: "Rhode Island SB 241 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DiMario", "Felag", "Kallman", "Lauria", "Sosnowski", "Valverde"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-06-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd9a244f-0f94-43b4-aec5-7107872eff0c"
source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
source_hash: "aed62703339e246678ed05706a35935e4c7c4237b0f037aecc57c8f9c0cad0fc"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island SB 241 (2025) — AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024

Prohibits a manufacturer from manufacturing, knowingly selling, offering for sale, distributing for sale or distributing for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS as of January 1, 2027.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **241** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/SenateText25/S0241.pdf)

## Votes

- CONSUMER PFAS BAN ACT OF 2024 — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- IN CONCURRENCE — **64–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DiMario — primary (person)
- Felag — primary (person)
- Kallman — primary (person)
- Lauria — primary (person)
- Sosnowski — primary (person)
- Valverde — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-13** 02/13/2025 Introduced, referred to Senate Environment and Agriculture `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** 02/28/2025 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2025)
- **2025-03-05** 03/05/2025 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
- **2025-03-28** 03/28/2025 Scheduled for consideration (04/02/2025)
- **2025-04-02** 04/02/2025 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-03** 04/03/2025 Placed on Senate Calendar (04/10/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10** 04/10/2025 Senate read and passed `passage`
- **2025-04-11** 04/11/2025 Referred to House Environment and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** 05/23/2025 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2025)
- **2025-05-29** 05/29/2025 Committee recommends passage in concurrence `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-30** 05/30/2025 Placed on the House Consent Calendar (06/03/2025) `reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** 06/03/2025 House passed in concurrence `passage`
- **2025-06-05** 06/05/2025 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** 06/10/2025 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd9a244f-0f94-43b4-aec5-7107872eff0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).