Bill Text: MI HB4522 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; toxic substances or products; bisphenol A in children's products; prohibit. Amends title & sec. 25 of 2000 PA 219 (MCL 722.1075) & adds sec. 4.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-11-10 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4522 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4522-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4522

 

March 10, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Meadows and Warren and referred to the Committee on Great Lakes and Environment.

 

     A bill to amend 2000 PA 219, entitled

 

"Children's product safety act,"

 

by amending the title and section 25 (MCL 722.1075) and by adding

 

section 4.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or use of certain

 

unsafe children's products; to prohibit child care facilities from

 

using or having on the facility premises certain unsafe children's

 

products; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments,

 

officers, and agencies; to provide for the promulgation of rules to

 

carry out the provisions of this act; and to prescribe penalties

 

for violation of the provisions of this act.

 

     Sec. 4. (1) A person shall not manufacture a children's

 

product that is designed or intended to come in contact with a

 

child 7 years of age or younger and that contains a detectable

 

amount of bisphenol A.

 

     (2) A person shall not sell a children's product that is

 

designed or intended to come in contact with a child 7 years of age

 

or younger if the person knows or has reason to know that it

 

contains a detectable amount of bisphenol A.

 

     Sec. 25. (1) A person who violates section 4 is guilty of a

 

misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 90 days or

 

a fine of not more than $100.00 for each item manufactured or sold

 

in violation of section 4, or both imprisonment and a fine.

 

     (2) A commercial user who willfully and knowingly violates

 

section 5 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not

 

more than $100.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or

 

both.