SB138
PFAS monitoring; DEQ to require for industrial wastewater source, publicly owned treatment works.
Status:
In House
Latest Action:
Feb. 13, 2026
Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
Chief Patron:
Jeremy McPike (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Department of Environmental Quality; industrial wastewater; publicly owned treatment works; PFAS monitoring.
Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to require quarterly monitoring for one year for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for every industrial wastewater source that discharges pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works. The bill requires (i) any owner or operator of such industrial wastewater source to submit the results ... (More) of such monitoring quarterly to the publicly owned treatment works and the Department; (ii) if quarterly monitoring reveals PFAS in any amount, the owner or operator of such industrial wastewater source to continue to monitor for PFAS on a quarterly basis and submit the results of such monitoring to the publicly owned treatment works and the Department; and (iii) any new industrial wastewater source that discharges pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works to monitor discharges from each outfall for PFAS and submit the results of such monitoring within 90 days of the commencement of such discharges to the publicly owned treatment works and the Department. The bill allows the Department to reduce the frequency of such required monitoring in clause (ii) if an industrial wastewater source has at least two consecutive quarters of test results with all analyzed PFAS below the method detection level. The bill also requires any owner or operator of an industrial wastewater source that discharges pollutants into a publicly owned treatment works to submit the initial quarterly monitoring results for PFAS as required by the bill within 30 days of the effective date of the bill. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/06/2026 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102266D
- 01/06/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 01/27/2026 - Senate: Assigned HACNR sub: Water Usage
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Senate committee offered
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/04/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26107042D-S1
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB138)
- 02/10/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 02/11/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Read second time
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Substitute agreed to
- 02/12/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- 02/13/2026 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
