PFAS Cosmetics Bill, a New Space Academy, and Workers Comp Rules

A federal bill to ban PFAS in cosmetics, an executive order creating a Space Academy, and a Florida rule change stemming from a court ruling on workers' compensation medications entered the record on September 3. Federal filings entered the record at their busiest pace since August 15, with 189 items collected, while a data-load day inflated regulatory notice counts in Florida, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Why it matters: Cosmetics manufacturers, Florida workers' compensation providers, and reviewers of federal filings each have new material entered in the day's record to check.

What moved

• No PFAS in Cosmetics Act (HB9594), federal. The bill proposes amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the intentional addition of PFAS in cosmetic products and, per its summary, would establish enforcement mechanisms for cosmetic manufacturers. Status is Introduced; the next step is committee or floor action in the chamber of origin. The bill's own fields do not specify a deadline.

• Establishing the United States Space Academy, federal. An executive order creating this new institution was published in the Federal Register on September 3. The summary states that operational details, funding and an implementation timeline are not included in the announcement, and that further rulemaking or notices may follow.

• Notice of Proposed Rule - 69L-7.730, 69L-7.740 - This rulemaking will remove language regarding medications dispensed by a physician or other medical practitioner. The First District Court of Appeals struck th, Florida. The Department of Financial Services' Division of Workers' Compensation proposes removing rule language on medications dispensed by physicians or other medical practitioners, following a decision in Publix Super Markets, Inc., et al. v. Department of Financial Services, et al. at the First District Court of Appeals. The notice was published June 12; the record does not state a further procedural step beyond the notice itself.

• Notice of Proposed Rule - 6A-4.0167 - This new rule is to establish the Florida Mathematics Endorsement (K-12) Competencies as directed by Chapter 2025-109, Laws of Florida., Florida. The Department of Education's State Board of Education published this notice to establish the Florida Mathematics Endorsement (K-12) Competencies, as directed by Chapter 2025-109, Laws of Florida. The notice was published June 25; no further procedural step or deadline is stated in the record.

By the numbers

• Federal filings totaled 189 items: 105 agency regulations (a typical weekday brings about 45), 82 court opinions (a typical weekday brings about 69), 1 bill and 1 executive order. That combined federal total is the busiest since August 15, when federal filings last reached this level or higher.
• Across all jurisdictions, 3262 items entered the record from 25 states plus the federal government, combined.
• September 3 is a data-load day for regulations: 3120 regulations entered the record across all jurisdictions against a trailing weekday average of about 53 for that kind of day.
• That load traces largely to state totals: Florida logged 1764 items (1763 regulations, 1 opinion), Virginia logged 751 items, all regulations, and Wisconsin logged 378 items, all regulations. Those counts reflect the pipeline event, not a change in state rulemaking activity.
• Michigan logged 69 regulations against a trailing weekday average of about 2, its highest single-day count in tracking, though this too falls within the day's broader load pattern.

Bill actions

No tracked bill carried an action dated September 3.

Methodology

"Collected" means the pipeline collection date, not the source date. Counts are deduplicated processed records from OmniLegislation's own pipeline. Item descriptions come from the pipeline's own summaries of each record. Baselines are trailing 30 day daily averages for the same kind of day (weekend days against weekend days, weekdays against weekdays) that exclude known bulk-load days; highest single-day counts are measured since tracking began on April 5, 2026, and include load days, which are labelled. Bill actions cover tracked bills only. This report covers September 3, 2026. Bill records originate from LegiScan; court opinions from CourtListener, a Free Law Project service; federal regulations from the Federal Register.