[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2047 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2047

To ban the use of intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl 
                        substances in cosmetics.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 14, 2021

 Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Hassan, 
 Mrs. Shaheen, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. King) 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 ban the use of intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl 
                        substances in cosmetics.

    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 ``No PFAS in Cosmetics Act''.

SEC. 2. BAN ON PERFLUOROALKYL OR POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES.

    (a) Directed Rulemaking.--Not later than 270 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall issue a 
proposed rule to ban the use of intentionally added perfluoroalkyl or 
polyfluoroalkyl substances in cosmetics. Not later than 90 days after 
issuing the proposed rule, the Secretary shall finalize such rule.
    (b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``perfluoroalkyl or 
polyfluoroalkyl substance'' means a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl 
substance that is man-made and has at least 1 fully fluorinated carbon 
atom.
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