HR7601-119

What This Bill Does

The No Immunity for Glyphosate Act has two main effects. First, it prohibits federal funds from being used to implement, administer, or enforce the February 18, 2026 executive order titled Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides. Second, it creates an express federal path for injured people, estates, survivors, or legal representatives to sue covered entities that manufacture, distribute, formulate, supply, or sell elemental phosphorus or glyphosate-based herbicides. Federal district courts get jurisdiction regardless of amount in controversy or citizenship. Remedies can include compensatory damages for medical expenses, lost income, pain and suffering, and wrongful death, plus punitive damages, declaratory and injunctive relief, and attorney fees and costs. The bill says covered entities cannot use Defense Production Act immunity, federal-contractor immunity, preemption, or compliance with an executive order, regulation, contract, or authorization as a defense, and it preserves state and federal claims including pending cases.

Who Benefits and How

People injured by glyphosate-based herbicides, estates of exposed individuals, survivors pursuing wrongful-death claims, plaintiffs attorneys, and state-law tort claimants benefit from a federal cause of action, broader damages, attorney-fee recovery, and removal of federal immunity defenses.

Who Bears the Burden and How

Glyphosate manufacturers, elemental phosphorus suppliers, herbicide distributors, and covered contractors must defend federal and state injury suits without relying on Defense Production Act, federal-contractor, preemption, or federal-authorization immunity defenses. Federal agencies implementing the executive order must stop using appropriated funds for that work, and federal district courts must hear covered exposure claims regardless of amount in controversy or party citizenship.

Key Provisions

• Bars federal funds from implementing, administering, or enforcing the February 18, 2026 executive order on elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides.
• Creates a federal civil action for physical injury, illness, disease, or death caused by glyphosate-based herbicide or elemental phosphorus exposure.
• Authorizes compensatory damages, punitive damages, equitable relief, attorney fees, and costs in covered civil actions.
• Prohibits covered entities from asserting Defense Production Act, federal-contractor, preemption, or federal-authorization immunity defenses.