I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5437 
To prohibit civil actions brought against a manufacturer or seller of a stone 
slab product for harm resulting from the alteration of such a product 
by a fabricator, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 
Mr. MCCLINTOCK (for himself and Mr. BIGGS of Arizona) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To prohibit civil actions brought against a manufacturer 
or seller of a stone slab product for harm resulting 
from the alteration of such a product by a fabricator, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protection of Lawful 
Commerce in Stone Slab Products Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Civil actions have been commenced against 
manufacturers and sellers of certain stone slab prod-
ucts, including those used for kitchen countertops 
and similar applications. These products are not in-
herently dangerous and upon their manufacture and 
entry into the stream of commerce, they do not pose 
an inherent risk of injury to human beings. 
(2) These civil actions seek money damages 
from manufacturers and sellers by persons who 
claim personal injuries as a result of exposure to sili-
ca dust produced during the alteration of such prod-
ucts in the course of their employment by third- 
party fabricators. The manufacturers and sellers of 
these products have no control over these fabrica-
tors. 
(3) The alteration of such products is heavily 
regulated by Federal and State workplace safety 
laws and regulations, including section 1910.1053 of 
title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, and California 
Labor Code Section 5204, which require a variety of 
safety measures that fabricators must employ in 
order to mitigate the risk of potential injuries posed 
by silica dust. However, some fabricators fail to 
comply with these requirements and thereby expose 
their employees and others to the potential harms 
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that these laws and regulations are intended to pre-
vent. 
(4) Businesses located or conducting business 
in the United States that are engaged in interstate 
and foreign commerce through the lawful design, 
manufacture, marketing, distribution, importation, 
or sale to third-parties of certain stone slab products 
are not responsible, and should not be held liable, 
for the alleged injuries caused by those who alter the 
product in a way that is unsafe or violates Federal 
and State laws and regulations. 
(5) The possibility of imposing liability on an 
entire industry for alleged injuries that are solely 
caused by others is an abuse of the legal system, 
erodes public confidence in our Nation’s laws, invites 
the disassembly and destabilization of other indus-
tries and economic sectors lawfully competing in the 
free enterprise system of the United States, and con-
stitutes an unreasonable burden on interstate and 
foreign commerce of the United States. 
(6) A proliferation of frivolous lawsuits against 
manufacturers and sellers of stone slab products for 
alleged workplace injuries caused by the actions of 
third-parties unrelated to and beyond the control of 
these manufacturers and sellers may further limit 
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access to courts by straining the resources of the 
legal system and depriving deserving parties of their 
legitimate rights to relief. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are as fol-
lows: 
(1) To prohibit civil actions against manufac-
turers and sellers of stone slab products for injuries 
caused by exposure to respirable silica or other sub-
stances arising from or relating to the fabrication of 
such products by third-parties. 
(2) To preserve consumers’ access to a supply 
of stone slab products, to protect manufacturers and 
sellers from frivolous civil actions alleging liability 
for such injuries, and to preserve a lawful industry 
that employs tens of thousands of Americans in sev-
eral States. 
(3) To prevent the use of such civil actions to 
impose unreasonable burdens on interstate and for-
eign commerce. 
(4) To exercise congressional power under arti-
cle IV, section 1 of the Constitution (the Full Faith 
and Credit Clause). 
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SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON BRINGING OF QUALIFIED CIVIL 
ACTIONS IN FEDERAL OR STATE COURT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—A qualified civil action may not 
be brought in any Federal or State court. 
(b) DISMISSAL OF PENDING ACTIONS.—A qualified 
civil action that is pending on the date of enactment of 
this Act shall be dismissed, as soon as is practicable after 
the date of enactment of this Act, by the court in which 
the action is pending. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) FABRICATION.—The term ‘‘fabrication’’ 
means the process of altering a qualified product by 
cutting, drilling, shaping, polishing, grinding, or 
other means. 
(2) QUALIFIED
CIVIL
ACTION.—The term 
‘‘qualified civil action’’ means a civil action brought 
against a manufacturer or seller of a qualified prod-
uct for injuries arising from or related to the fab-
rication by another party of a qualified product, in-
cluding those caused by exposure to respirable silica 
or other substances. 
(3) QUALIFIED PRODUCT.—The term ‘‘qualified 
product’’ means a stone slab product, including such 
a product made with quartz, mineral, crystal, glass, 
porcelain, or other stone, ceramic or similar mate-
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rial, that has been shipped or transported in inter-
state or foreign commerce. 
(4) SELLER.—The term ‘‘seller’’ means an im-
porter, a distributer, a retailer, or a supplier of a 
qualified product. 
(5) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ includes each of 
the several States of the United States, the District 
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American 
Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, and any other territory or posses-
sion of the United States, and any political subdivi-
sion of any such place. 
Æ 
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