ENVIRONMENT The Spring 2025 session resulted in several pragmatic updates to environmental and energy regulations, with an emphasis on clarifying agency roles, reducing compliance burdens, and supporting infrastructure and workforce needs. Importantly, several costly or overly broad mandates were prevented from advancing—en- suring Illinois remains competitive for investment, industrial growth, and innovation. HB 2409 (Kelly/Villivalam) PFAS Firefighting PPE This bill prohibits the sale and manufacturing of auxiliary firefighting personal protective equipment beginning January 1, 2030. Beginning January 1, 2026, anyone providing firefighting personal protective clothing con- taining PFAS chemicals is required to provide notification. The purchaser shall retain a copy of the notice for at least 3 years from the date of purchase. The Act is referred to as the Deputy Chief Pete Bendinelli PFAS PPE Act. This bill Passed Both Houses. HB 3290 (Smith/Fine) UST Fund Deductibles This bill was an initiative of the Illinois EPA. The bill eliminates the $15k, $50k and $100k deductibles and requires only a $10k deductible moving forward. Unfortunately, if already paid, no refund will be issued. Any releases reported as of June 8, 2010, or later the $5k deductible applies. This bill Passed Both Houses. SB 1723 (Faraci/Ammons) Mahomet Aquifer Carbon Sequestration This bill prohibits carbon sequestration activity that overlies, underlies or passes through a sole source aqui- fer. Creates the Mahomet Aquifer Advisory Study Commission. The Advisory Study Commission is repealed on January 1, 2032. This bill Passed Both Houses. HB 2516 (Rashid/Morrison) PFAS Product Ban This bill bans the intentional addition of PFAS to numerous products. This does not apply to products governed by federal law that preempt State authority; used products offered for sale or resale; electronic or internal components of products; and refrigerants, foams, and aerosol propellants that are listed as acceptable by USEPA. This bill instructs the IEPA to submit a report to the General Assembly by August 1, 2027. This bill also includes civil penalties between $5k and $10k for violations of this Act. This bill Passed Both Houses. SB 1697 (Fine/Hoffman) Carbon Dioxide Transportation and Sequestration Act This bill adds that landowners must be compensated for damages to surface land where carbon capture and sequestration is occurring along with requirements to return the surface land back to conditions as near as practicable to the original surface conditions before the sequestration occurred. The bill contains additional provisions regarding when compensation would be required and for what purpose. This bill Passed Both Hous- es. HB 3278 (Mason/Morrison) Plastic Pellet Free Waters This bill adds a new section to the Environmental Protection Act to address the control of plastic pellet release from permitted facilities. It directs IEPA to develop and begin implementation of requirements for a Storm- water Pollution Prevention Plan or other best management practice requirements to be included in NPDES permits issued to facilities regulated under 40 CFR 414 or 40 CFR 463. The bill states that these requirements shall apply to the control of plastic pellets or other pre-production plastic materials in stormwater runoff from these facilities. This bill did not advance. SB 1859 (Guzmán/Guzzardi) Climate Displacement Act This bill creates the Climate Displacement Task Force Act for the purpose of making recommendations re- garding climate displacement within the State. The Task Force will produce two reports to be submitted to the General Assembly. The first report will be due by June 30, 2026, to include an analysis of scientific research and global modeling that accurately assesses the level of climate displacement projected to occur in the United 2025 END OF SESSION ILLINOIS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 9 | END OF SESSION REPORT
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