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Minnesota clarifies exemption for electronic and internal components in PFAS prohibitions
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Announced
Jun 9, 2025
Implementation
Jan 1, 2025
Description
The 2025 1st Special Session enacted SF 3, which clarified that the PFAS prohibitions under Amara's Law for 11 product categories (carpets, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, fabric treatments, juvenile products, menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, and upholstered furniture) do not apply to products containing intentionally added PFAS only in electronic components or internal components. This exemption provides clarity for manufacturers of electronics, furniture, and other goods where PFAS may be present only in internal components rather than in the primary product material. The 2032 prohibitions will apply to these temporarily exempted components.
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Minnesota clarifies exemption for electronic and internal components in PFAS prohibitions
ding for environmental permitting reform; making technical changes; providing civil and criminal penalties; providing appointments; requiring reports; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 84.027, by adding a subdivision; 84.705, subdivisions 1, 3; 86B.415, subdivision 7; 88.82; 97A.223, subdivision 1; 97A.421, by adding a subdivision; 97A.465, by adding a subdivision; 97A.475, subdivisions 2, 6; 97B.031, by add
Minnesota clarifies exemption for electronic and internal components in PFAS prohibitions
furniture that is designed to be used for sitting, resting, or reclining and that is wholly or partly stuffed or filled with any filling material. ## Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 116.943, subdivision 5, is amended to read: ## Subd. 5. ### Prohibitions. (a) Beginning January 1, 2025, a person may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in this state the following products if the product contains