[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3819 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3819

To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to include certain 
  yellow coloring as construction materials for purposes of the Build 
           America, Buy America Act, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 10, 2026

Ms. Slotkin (for herself and Mr. Husted) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to include certain 
  yellow coloring as construction materials for purposes of the Build 
           America, Buy America Act, 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.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Paving the Way for American Industry 
Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS IN BUILD AMERICA, BUY AMERICA 
              ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 70917 of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (41 U.S.C. 8301 note; Public Law 117-58) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Certain Yellow Pigments.--
            ``(1) In general.--For the purpose of this part--
                    ``(A) beginning on the date of enactment of the 
                Paving the Way for American Industry Act, all yellow 
                organic pigments used in water-based paints for road, 
                highway, or airport surface markings shall be 
                considered to be construction materials; and
                    ``(B) beginning on the date that is 2 years after 
                the date of enactment of the Paving the Way for 
                American Industry Act, all yellow organic pigments used 
                in all formulas for road, highway, or airport surface 
                markings shall be considered to be construction 
                materials.
            ``(2) Produced in the united states.--For the purpose of 
        this part, with respect to a yellow organic pigment described 
        in paragraph (1), the term `produced in the United States' 
        means that all manufacturing processes from initial combination 
        of materials through the chemical reaction resulting in the 
        synthesized pigment, where chemical reaction is a process 
        (including a biochemical process) that results in a molecule 
        with a new structure by breaking intramolecular bonds and by 
        forming new intramolecular bonds, or by altering the spatial 
        arrangement of atoms in a molecule, occurred in the United 
        States.''.
    (b) Implementation.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall update relevant guidance, including the implementation 
guidance of the Made in America Office, to reflect the amendment made 
by subsection (a).
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