For timely updates about registrations, fees, agreements, and product notices, manufacturers are encouraged to sign up for PaintCare’s email updates below.
Current Updates
Manufacturer Registration
Paint manufacturers that sell covered products directly or indirectly in a PaintCare state are required by each state’s stewardship law to register the company and brands with PaintCare.
To register online visit www.paintcarereporting.org. You will be asked to provide contact information, submit a list of brands, and indicate the state(s) program for which you would like to register. After PaintCare reviews the brands list to confirm that they are covered by the PaintCare program and require registration, we will create a user profile and send a confirmation email. We will add your company name and brands to the official registration lists for each state. Companies can easily add additional states as needed in the future by checking a box. The same brands list is used in all states.
PaintCare Fee
PaintCare is funded by a fee (referred to as the PaintCare fee) which is applied to the purchase price of covered products sold in each state that has passed a stewardship law. The fee is paid to PaintCare by manufacturers and is then added to the wholesale and retail purchase price of covered products, passing the cost of managing leftover paint and related products to everyone who buys and uses it.
Learn more about the PaintCare fee, find the fee structures by state, and get updates on changes to the fee structures at paintcare.org/fee.
State pricing laws may require retailers to include the PaintCare Fee in a product’s “sticker price” displayed to consumers. Noncompliance with state pricing laws could lead to fines. Learn more at paintcare.org/pricinglaws.
Remitter Agreements
Remitter Agreements allow paint manufacturers to move the reporting and fee remittance responsibility to their dealers. PaintCare will accept the PaintCare fee and reporting information from distributors or retailers selling paint in the individual states on behalf of their manufacturer supplier(s). This arrangement is established by the parties entering into an agreement.
Remitter Agreements are used between manufacturers and their distributors as well as between manufacturers and retailers and between distributors and retailers. Agreements can be used for all or part of a manufacturer’s sales. While Remitter Agreements benefit manufacturers by passing the reporting and remittance task to their dealer, there is also an economic benefit to the dealer because payment (remittance) of the fee occurs after the sale, rather than before.
Remitter agreements can be made between companies that have set up accounts to use PaintCare’s reporting system at www.paintcarereporting.org.
If you do not have an account but would like to review the language of the remitter agreement, please contact Taujuana Davis at or click here.
PaintCare Products and Product Notices
All PaintCare state programs include architectural paint; some PaintCare state programs are adding other coatings and coatings-related products. Learn more about additional products being added to PaintCare here.
Architectural Paint Products and Notices
Architectural paint products have a PaintCare fee and are accepted at PaintCare drop-off sites. When clarification is needed about which products are subject to the PaintCare fee and which products are not, PaintCare publishes additional definitions and notices.
Additional Covered Products and Notices
There are no product notices for additional covered products at this time.
Registration Lists
PaintCare publishes registration lists of manufacturers and brands for each state below. Lists are updated within 30 days of any change. If you are a manufacturer that has recently registered, please let us know if you would like us to update lists sooner than 30 days so that the retailers or others can see that you have registered your brands.