To prohibit a person from making a misleading recycled content claim in advertising, marketing, selling, or offering for sale a product to a consumer, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7502 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7502 To prohibit a person from making a misleading recycled content claim in advertising, marketing, selling, or offering for sale a product to a consumer, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 11, 2026 Mr. Langworthy (for himself, Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Evans of Colorado, Mr. Davis of North Carolina, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Cuellar, and Mr. Pfluger) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit a person from making a misleading recycled content claim in advertising, marketing, selling, or offering for sale a product to a consumer, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Recycled Materials Attribution Act of 2026''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. Sec. 3. Recognition of mass balance accounting for recycled content claims. Sec. 4. Recycled content claims. Sec. 5. Enforcement by Federal Trade Commission. Sec. 6. Preemption. Sec. 7. Savings provision. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal Trade Commission. (2) Competent and reliable scientific evidence.--The term ``competent and reliable scientific evidence'' means any test, analysis, research, or study that-- (A) has been conducted and evaluated in an objective manner by an expert in the relevant field; (B) is generally accepted in t