[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2902 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2902

 To prohibit the sale or distribution of certain cosmetics containing 
                     synthetic plastic microbeads.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 2014

Mrs. Gillibrand introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the sale or distribution of certain cosmetics containing 
                     synthetic plastic microbeads.

    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 ``Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2014''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST SALE OR DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN COSMETICS 
              CONTAINING SYNTHETIC PLASTIC MICROBEADS.

    (a) In General.--Section 601 of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 361) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(f) If it is a cosmetic identified by the Secretary under section 
2(c)(2) of the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2014 and it contains 
synthetic plastic microbeads.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2018.
    (c) Rulemaking.--Not later than January 1, 2017, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and 
Drugs, shall promulgate a final rule that, for purposes of subsection 
(f) of section 601 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (as 
added by subsection (a))--
            (1) defines the term ``synthetic plastic microbead''; and
            (2) identifies the cosmetics to which such subsection (f) 
        shall apply.
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