Senators Coons, Husted introduce bipartisan legislation to authorize and strengthen EPA’s Safer Choice Program
Support legislation to formally authorize and strengthen the EPA Safer Choice Program.
Occurrences
The bill would formally authorize EPA’s Safer Choice Program, maintain the Safer Chemical Ingredients List, and strengthen transparency and reporting.
Evidence
Senators Chris Coons and Jon Husted introduced the Safer Choice Program Authorization Act to formally authorize and strengthen EPA’s voluntary Safer Choice Program.
The bill would formally authorize EPA’s Safer Choice Program, maintain the Safer Chemical Ingredients List, and strengthen transparency and reporting.
U.S. Senators Chris Coons and Jon Husted introduced the Safer Choice Program Authorization Act to formally authorize and strengthen EPA's voluntary Safer Choice Program. Husted said he was proud to co-lead the effort.
The section-by-section summary says the bill is led by Senators Chris Coons and Jon Husted and directs EPA to establish and carry out a voluntary Safer Choice Program, maintain the Safer Chemical Ingredients List, require reporting and transparency, and authorize annual appropriations.
The official Senate legislation page lists S.4664, Safer Choice Program Authorization Act of 2026, updated June 19, 2026, with latest action: read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation, not necessarily secure final enactment. In Husted's federal Senate term, he co-introduced and co-led the Safer Choice Program Authorization Act of 2026, which directly aimed to formally authorize and strengthen EPA's Safer Choice Program through codification, transparency, reporting, ingredient-list maintenance, and appropriations authorization. Because his own legislative action matches the promised support, this counts as delivered in the same term even though the bill was only referred to committee in the cited record.
The promise was to support legislation to formally authorize and strengthen the EPA Safer Choice Program, not necessarily to secure enactment. During Husted's current federal Senate term, he co-introduced and co-led the Safer Choice Program Authorization Act, which directly matches the promised policy by authorizing the program and adding strengthening provisions such as transparency, reporting, chemical ingredient list maintenance, and appropriations authorization. The bill's referral to committee means it had not become law, but the pledged action was support for the legislation, which he fulfilled in the same term.
Husted directly co-introduced the Safer Choice Program Authorization Act, which expressly would formally authorize and strengthen EPA’s Safer Choice Program. That is a clear, on-point legislative action by the candidate during the current term, so the pledge to support such legislation is fulfilled on candidate credit even though enactment is not shown here.