Wipes must have 'Do Not Flush' labels on packages.
S. 1092 — WIPPES Act · Filed by Jeff Merkley (D-OR) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Mar 24, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill requires wipe makers to put a clear warning on packages. The warning must say 'Do Not Flush'. The warning must be big enough and dark enough to see. The Federal Trade Commission will check that companies follow the rule. States cannot make stricter labeling rules.
Who it affects
People who buy wipes will see clearer warnings about not flushing them. Wipe makers must add labels to their packages. Wastewater treatment plants will have fewer clogs from wipes.
One thing to notice
Companies get one year before they must start using the new labels.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 7 Democrats, 1 Independents, 1 Republicans.
- Mar 24, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
- May 21, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of…”
- Mar 22, 2026 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S1521-1522; text of amendment in the…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
20 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 27 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $3,201,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 6 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 97% of bills with any report.
Jeff Merkley, who sponsored the bill, received $501,425 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Kimberly-clark Corporation — $730,000 in 1 report
- The Procter and Gamble Company — $661,000 in 1 report
- National Rural Water Association — $420,000 in 1 report
- Association of California Water Agencies — $250,000 in 2 reports
- American Cleaning Institute (formerly Known As the Soap & Detergent Association) — $160,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Federal Trade Commission — A government agency that stops unfair or deceptive business practices.
- 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.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (10,216 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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