2026 SESSION

INTRODUCED

26103982D

HOUSE BILL NO. 880

Offered January 14, 2026

Prefiled January 13, 2026

A BILL to require the Department of Environmental Quality to amend regulations for monitoring per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in biosolids.

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Patron—Kent

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Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Environmental Quality (the Department) shall amend the Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit Regulation (9VAC25-31) to require an owner of a sewage treatment works to sample and test sewage sludge for PFAS, as that term is defined in § 62.1-44.34:29 of the Code of Virginia, once a month. The results from such sampling shall be subject to all existing reporting, compliance, and enforcement provisions.