Federal road projects must use U.S.-made yellow paint pigment.

What it does

The bill changes what counts as U.S.-made material. Yellow organic pigments count as domestic if all steps happen in the United States. Water-based paints must follow this rule right away. All other paint formulas have two years to comply.

Who it affects

Paint companies and taxpayers who fund road projects are affected. States and local governments that build roads must follow the new rule.

One thing to notice

The bill does not say where raw materials come from. It only requires the final chemical step to happen in the U.S.

From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.

Where it stands

6 cosponsors: 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans.

• Jun 11, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
• Jun 11, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Energy and Commerce and House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Energy…”

Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.

Money around this bill

6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 9 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.

Those reports show $1,700,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 12 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.

More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.

Hillary Scholten, who sponsored the bill, received $728,440 from PACs for the 2026 election.

• United Steel Paper & Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy — $1,080,000 in 2 reports
• The Sherwin-williams Company — $220,000 in 1 report
• Ppg Industries — $160,000 in 2 reports
• Ppg Industries, Inc — $140,000 in 1 report
• The Sherwin-williams Company — $60,000 in 1 report

Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.

Words to know

• yellow organic pigments — Colored powder made from chemicals, used to make paint yellow.
• water-based paints — Paint that uses water instead of oil as its main liquid.
• domestic — Made in the United States.
• lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
• PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
• sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.