Rhode Island · firefighting personal protective equipment
For Rhode Island, product category is firefighting personal protective equipment; effective date is 2025-01-01; restriction type is disclosure requirement; later phase effective date is 2027-01-01; later phase restriction type is sale ban, recorded from its source on 2026-10-07.
- State
- Rhode Island our reading
- Product Category
- firefighting personal protective equipment verified
- Effective Date
- 2025-01-01 our reading
- Restriction Type
- disclosure requirement our reading
- Later Phase Effective Date
- 2027-01-01 our reading
- Later Phase Restriction Type
- sale ban our reading
- Statute / Bill
- R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-18.18-5(l) (RI Consumer PFAS Ban Act of 2024, as amended by RI HB 5019, P.L. 2025, ch. 21) our reading
- PFAS Definition
- intentionally added PFAS
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
(l)(1) Beginning January 1, 2025, a manufacturer or other person that sells firefighting personal protective equipment to any person, local government, or state agency must provide written notice to the purchaser at the time of sale if the firefighting personal protective equipment contains any PFAS. The written notice must include a statement that the firefighting personal protective equipment contains PFAS chemicals and the reason PFAS chemicals are added to the equipment.
— webserver.rilegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-10-07
Where each value comes from
The values above are stated away from the sentence quoted with the answer, so the passage that states them is shown here too.
Later Phase Effective Date and Later Phase Restriction Type
(2) Beginning January 1, 2027, a manufacturer or other person that sells firefighting personal protective equipment to any person, local government, or state agency shall not manufacture, knowingly sell, offer for sale, distribute for sale, or distribute for use in the state any firefighting personal protective equipment containing intentionally-added PFAS.
— all from webserver.rilegislature.gov, retrieved 2026-10-07
Source
- webserver.rilegislature.govhttps://webserver.rilegislature.gov/Statutes/TITLE23/23-18.18/23-18.18-5.htm