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Official title: To authorize a national program to reduce the threat to human health posed by exposure to indoor air contaminants, and for other purposes.
Introduced September 3, 2025 by Paul Tonko · Last progress September 3, 2025
The bill substantially expands federal guidance, funding authorizations, and voluntary certification and code tools to improve indoor air quality—delivering health protections especially for children and sensitive populations—while shifting upfront costs and administrative burdens to building owners, local authorities, and taxpayers and relying on voluntary/state adoption that could leave gaps for disadvantaged or rented housing.
Children, students, building occupants, and sensitive adults (e.g., pregnant people, seniors) will face lower indoor exposure to pollutants because the bill funds guidance, assessments, certifications, model codes, and remediation that together improve indoor air quality in schools, childcare, homes, and public buildings.
State, local, Tribal governments, schools, housing authorities, and nonprofits gain access to grants, technical assistance, and an authorization of up to $100M/year (FY2026–FY2030) to plan and implement indoor air quality programs, making it easier to fund and carry out upgrades and responses to indoor pollution and climate-driven damage.
Homeowners, schools, and building owners benefit from clearer, standardized guidance, measurement methods, voluntary certification programs, and coordinated federal guidance that improve consumer protections and make mitigation efforts more consistent and credible.
Homeowners, building owners, landlords, school districts, and local governments will likely face increased upfront costs to implement ventilation, filtration, remediation, certification, and retrofit measures required or expected under the program.
Because many guidelines, certifications, and indexes are voluntary or rely on state/local adoption, renters and low-income populations may see uneven protections—benefits concentrate where owners or jurisdictions adopt measures, leaving others behind.
The bill authorizes new federal spending (including up to $100M/year FY2026–2030 plus other authorizations) but does not appropriate all funds now; taxpayers could face up to hundreds of millions in new costs if Congress funds programs and grants.
Based on analysis of 11 sections of legislative text.
Creates an EPA indoor air program with contaminant guidelines, grants, voluntary building certifications, NIST model code provisions, school/childcare assessments, and authorizes $100M/year (2026–2030).
Creates a coordinated federal program to improve indoor air quality in schools, childcare facilities, and other indoor spaces by directing the EPA to identify contaminants of concern, publish voluntary science-based guidelines, run technical assistance and grant programs, establish voluntary building certifications, and assess indoor air in school and childcare buildings. The bill also directs NIST to produce model building-code provisions, commissions a National Academy of Sciences study on an indoor air quality index, and authorizes $100 million per year from 2026–2030 for program activities (except the NAS study funding).