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The bill shifts procurement to U.S.-produced yellow pigments and clarifies domestic-content rules to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce procurement uncertainty, but risks higher costs and short-term supply disruptions for governments, taxpayers, contractors, and small manufacturers.
State and local governments (and the contractors they hire) can prioritize purchasing domestically produced yellow pigments for road and airport paint, supporting U.S. pigment and paint manufacturing jobs.
Procuring agencies get clearer domestic-content rules within 90 days, reducing procurement uncertainty and improving project planning and compliance for state and local public works.
Taxpayers and government agencies may face higher procurement costs if U.S.-produced pigments are more expensive or in limited supply, increasing the cost of road and airport projects.
Short compliance timeline (including immediate requirements for water-based paints) could disrupt supply chains and delay construction projects that rely on imported pigments.
Paint manufacturers that import pigment intermediates may face higher compliance costs or need to retool production to meet the U.S.-only production definition, squeezing margins for small producers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Designates certain yellow organic pigments used in road/highway/airport surface-marking paints as construction materials under Build America, Buy America, with a phased effective date and a strict U.S.-production definition.
Treats certain yellow organic pigments used in road, highway, and airport surface-marking paints as "construction materials" for Build America, Buy America procurement rules. Water-based yellow pigments are covered immediately; all yellow pigments used in these surface markings are covered two years after enactment. The bill also defines "produced in the United States" for these pigments to mean every manufacturing step through the chemical synthesis occurred in the U.S., and it directs OMB to update guidance within 90 days.
Introduced February 10, 2026 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress February 10, 2026