# Amara's Law *Minnesota statute (Minn. Stat. § 116.943) restricting intentionally added PFAS in products, named for a Washington County teenager.* Amara's Law is the popular name of Minn. Stat. § 116.943, a [[Minnesota]] statute that bans intentionally added PFAS in products.[^2] The ban took effect on January 1, 2025, in eleven product categories.[^1] In 2032 the statute extends the ban to all such products, except "currently unavoidable uses."[^1] The project's at-issue record states that the law is named for [[Amara Strande]] of [[Oakdale]], a Washington County teenager who was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer at seventeen.[^2] The record assembled here does not establish the statute's enactment date, sponsors, vote, the party that held the Legislature or governorship at passage, its amendment history, or any enforcement figures. ## Who According to the at-issue record, the statute's popular name honors Amara Strande of Oakdale, in Washington County.[^2] The same record states that she was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer at age seventeen.[^2] The record does not establish who sponsored, enacted, or signed the law. ## What Section 116.943 prohibits intentionally added PFAS in eleven product categories as of January 1, 2025.[^1] From 2032, the prohibition reaches all products with intentionally added PFAS. The one stated exception is for "currently unavoidable uses."[^1] The at-issue record does not name the eleven categories or say how the exception is defined or applied.[^2] ## When The first phase of the prohibition, covering eleven product categories, took effect on January 1, 2025.[^1] The second phase, covering all products with intentionally added PFAS apart from currently unavoidable uses, is set for 2032.[^1] ## In the at-issue record One at-issue entry concerns the statute: AI-Washington-067, in the Washington County package, dated January 1, 2025.[^2] It summarizes the 2025 and 2032 phases of the ban and the naming of the law for Amara Strande. It cites the Revisor's text of § 116.943 as its primary anchor and draws on two secondary sources, an analysis and a news report.[^2] ## In the Minnesota record ### What - Minn. Stat. § 116.943 is the statute known as Amara's Law.[^2] - It bans intentionally added PFAS in eleven product categories effective January 1, 2025.[^1] - It bans all such products in 2032, except "currently unavoidable uses."[^1] ### Who - The at-issue record states that the law is named for Amara Strande of Oakdale, who was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer at seventeen.[^2] ### When - January 1, 2025: ban takes effect for eleven product categories.[^1] - 2032: ban extends to all such products, except currently unavoidable uses.[^1] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. § 116.943* (current text) — the statute's text: the prohibition on intentionally added PFAS in eleven product categories effective January 1, 2025, and in all such products in 2032 except currently unavoidable uses. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/116.943 [^2]: Minnesota Revisor of Statutes, *Minn. Stat. § 116.943* (current text), cited as the primary anchor of the project's at-issue entry AI-Washington-067 — anchors the entry that calls the statute "Amara's Law" and attributes the name to Amara Strande of Oakdale. The entry takes the attribution from two secondary sources (analysis; news) whose URLs are not in this pack. https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/116.943