Bill Text: NY A06969 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "beauty justice act"; provides for the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics; prohibits the sale of personal care products and cosmetic products containing certain restricted products.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 64-13)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - print number 6969b [A06969 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06969-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6969--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, LUNSFORD, L. ROSENTHAL, COLTON, STECK, O'DONNELL, SIMONE, DICKENS, GUNTHER, SHIMSKY, SIMON, RAMOS, TAYLOR, LEE, KELLES, DINOWITZ, DURSO, GANDOLFO, NOVAKHOV, THIELE, STERN, JACOBSON, ROZIC, RAJKUMAR, McMAHON, ANDERSON, KIM, BARRETT, SANTABAR- BARA, EPSTEIN, CLARK, RA, FORREST, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, CARROLL, PAULIN, MAMDANI, SEAWRIGHT, SHRESTHA, LAVINE, BURGOS, SLATER, CUNNINGHAM, EACHUS, SAYEGH, GALLAGHER, OTIS, LEVENBERG, K. BROWN, REYES, WOERNER, HUNTER, SOLAGES, BENEDETTO, PRETLOW, FAHY, MEEKS, BRONSON, McDONALD, PHEFFER AMATO, MANKTELOW, JENSEN, GALLAHAN, BURDICK, ARDILA, RAGA, LUPARDO, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, WEPRIN, SIMPSON, SILLITTI, JEAN-PIERRE, BORES, BENDETT, DeSTEFANO, MCGOWAN, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amend- ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the regulation of ingredients in personal care products and cosmetics The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "beauty justice act". 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. Thousands of chemicals are used 4 in cosmetics and personal care products. Some of these chemicals are 5 associated with asthma, allergies, hormone disruption, neurodevelopmen- 6 tal problems, infertility, even cancer. Exposure to personal care and 7 cosmetic products typically begins in infancy, with products such as 8 baby shampoo, lotion, and diaper cream, and continues throughout their 9 lifespan. According to the Environmental Working Group, "on average, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07027-13-4A. 6969--B 2 1 women use 12 personal care products a day, exposing themselves to 168 2 chemical ingredients. Men use six, exposing themselves to 85 unique 3 chemicals." 4 Further, The National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducted an eight- 5 year study of over 46,000 women who used permanent hair dyes and 6 straighteners. They found that women of color who regularly used dyes 7 and straighteners had a 45 percent higher breast cancer risk. White 8 women faced a 7 percent higher breast cancer risk. 9 European Union countries prohibit (with few exceptions) substances 10 classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic for reproduction in 11 cosmetic products. The Canadian government regularly updates a Cosmetic 12 Ingredient Hotlist that includes hundreds of chemicals and contaminants 13 prohibited and restricted from cosmetics, such as formaldehyde, triclo- 14 san, and more. Furthermore, over 40 countries including Japan, Cambodia, 15 and Vietnam, have stricter restrictions on chemicals in personal care 16 products than does the United States. 17 Moreover, regarding the safety of using personal care products, 18 the federal Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 is the 19 first federal law to significantly update the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 20 Act. However, the Act fails to meaningfully restrict the use of harmful 21 chemicals in personal care/cosmetic products, and explicitly grants 22 states the ability to enact such restrictions. For example, it failed to 23 ban coal tar, a well known carcinogen. 24 Therefore, the legislature finds and declares that federal 25 restrictions of harmful chemicals in personal care and cosmetic products 26 are inadequate to educate and protect consumers and salon workers, and 27 that it shall be the policy of the state to restrict chemicals that 28 may harm the health of New Yorkers during production, use, or disposal 29 of personal care products and cosmetic products. 30 § 3. Article 37 of the environmental conservation law is amended by 31 adding a new title 12 to read as follows: 32 TITLE XII 33 BEAUTY JUSTICE ACT 34 Section 37-1201. Definitions. 35 37-1203. Sales prohibition. 36 37-1205. Identification of safer alternatives. 37 37-1207. Regulations. 38 § 37-1201. Definitions. 39 As used in this title, unless the context requires otherwise: 40 1. "Cosmetic product" shall mean a cosmetic product as defined in 41 section 37-0117 of this article. 42 2. "Intentionally added ingredient" shall mean any element or compound 43 that a manufacturer has intentionally added to a personal care product, 44 and which has a functional or technical effect in the finished product, 45 including, but not limited to, the components of intentionally added 46 fragrance, flavoring and colorants, and the intentional breakdown 47 products of an added element or compound that also has a functional or 48 technical effect on the finished product. 49 3. "Nonfunctional byproduct" shall mean any element or compound which 50 has no functional or technical effect in the finished product which: 51 (a) was intentionally added during the manufacturing process for a 52 personal care product or cosmetic product at any point in a product's, a 53 raw material's or ingredient's supply chain; or 54 (b) was created or formed during the manufacturing process as an 55 intentional or unintentional consequence of the manufacturing process atA. 6969--B 3 1 any point in a product's, a raw material's, or an ingredient's supply 2 chain. 3 Nonfunctional byproduct shall include, but is not limited to, an 4 unreacted raw material, a breakdown product of an intentionally added 5 ingredient, or a byproduct of the manufacturing process. 6 4. "Nonfunctional contaminant" shall mean any element or compound 7 present in a personal care product as an unintentional consequence of 8 manufacturing which has no functional or technical effect in the 9 finished product. Nonfunctional contaminants include, but are not limit- 10 ed to, elements or compounds present in the environment as contaminants 11 which were introduced into a product, a raw material, or a product 12 ingredient as a result of the use of an environmental medium, such as a 13 naturally occurring mineral, air, soil or water, in the manufacturing 14 process at any point in a product's, a raw material's, or an ingredi- 15 ent's supply chain. 16 5. "Manufacturer" shall mean any person, firm, association, partner- 17 ship, limited liability company, or corporation which produces, 18 prepares, formulates, or compounds a personal care product, or whose 19 brand name is affixed to such product. In the case of a personal care 20 product imported into the United States, "manufacturer" shall mean the 21 importer or first domestic distributor of the product if the entity that 22 manufactures the product or whose brand name is affixed to the product 23 does not have a presence in the United States. 24 6. "Personal care product" shall mean a personal care product as 25 defined in section 37-0117 of this article. 26 7. "Restricted substance" shall mean the following: 27 (a) the following heavy metals and any compounds containing the 28 following heavy metals: arsenic (CAS 7440-38-2), cadmium (CAS 29 7440-43-9), cadmium compounds, chromium (CAS 7440-47-3), lead (CAS 30 7439-92-1), lead compounds, nickel (CAS 7440-02-0) and selenium (CAS 31 7782-49-2); 32 (b) butyl- (CAS 94-26-8), ethyl- (CAS 120-47-8), isobutyl- (CAS 4247- 33 02-3), isopropyl- (CAS 4191-73-5), methyl- (CAS 99-76-3), and propyl 34 paraben (CAS 94-13-3); 35 (c) ortho-phthalates and their esters; 36 (d) per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as defined in subdivision 37 seven of section 37-0101 of this article, detected by total organic 38 fluorine analysis; 39 (e) formaldehyde (CAS 50-00-0) and formaldehyde releasers such as: 40 paraformaldehyde (CAS 30525-89-4), quaternium-15 (CAS 51229-78-8), 41 diazolidinyl urea (CAS 78491-02-8), dmdm hydantoin (CAS 6440-58-0), 42 methylene glycol (CAS 463-57-0), imidazolidinyl urea (CAS 39236-46-9), 43 and sodium hydroxymethylglycinate (CAS 70161-44-3), provided that in the 44 case of any formaldehyde releaser, treatment as a restricted substance 45 shall be subject to subdivision three of section 37-1203 of this title; 46 (f) benzophenone (CAS 119-61-9), benzophenone-1 (CAS 131-56-6), benzo- 47 phenone-2 (CAS 131-55-5), benzophenone-3 (CAS 131-57-7), 48 2,4-dihydroxybenzophenone (CAS 131-56-6), and resbenzophenone; 49 (g) benzene (CAS 71-43-2), carbon black (CAS 1333-86-4), coal tar (CAS 50 8007-45-2), ethylene oxide (CAS 75-21-8), toluene (CAS 108-88-3), 51 naphthalene (CAS 91-20-3), nickel (metallic) (CAS 7440-02-0), styrene 52 (CAS 100-42-5), and xylene (CAS 1330-20-7); 53 (h) asbestos (CAS 1332-21-4) and talc (CAS 14807-96-6); 54 (i) butylated hydroxytoluene (bht) (CAS 128-37-0) and butylated 55 hydroxyanisole (bha) (CAS 121-00-6); 56 (j) cyclotetrasiloxane (CAS 556-67-2);A. 6969--B 4 1 (k) m-phenylenediamine (CAS 108-45-2) and o-phenylenediamine (CAS 2 95-54-5); 3 (l) triclosan (CAS 3380-34-5), triclocarban (CAS 101-20-2), and nonyl- 4 phenol (CAS 68412-54-4); and 5 (m) diethanolamine (CAS 111-42-2) and triethanolamine (CAS 102-71-6). 6 § 37-1203. Sales prohibition. 7 1. Effective January first, two thousand twenty-eight, no person shall 8 sell or offer for sale in this state a personal care product or cosmetic 9 product containing a restricted substance as an intentionally added 10 ingredient in any amount. 11 2. In addition to the provisions of subdivision one of this section, 12 two years after the department's adoption of the regulations required by 13 section 37-1207 of this title, such product shall not contain a 14 restricted substance present as a nonfunctional byproduct or nonfunc- 15 tional contaminant in a cosmetic product or personal care product or a 16 component thereof at or above a level that the department shall estab- 17 lish in regulation that is the lowest level that can feasibly be 18 achieved; provided, however, that the department shall review such level 19 every five years to determine whether it should be lowered. 20 3. (a) The department's determinations regarding chemicals that 21 release formaldehyde, pursuant to paragraph (e) of subdivision seven of 22 section 37-1201 of this title, shall be adopted by regulation. The 23 department shall identify a list of chemicals used in cosmetic products 24 and personal care products that release formaldehyde that may be deemed 25 restricted substances and subject to the sales restrictions of subdivi- 26 sions one and two of this section. In establishing such list, the 27 department should consider: (i) estimated prevalence of use; (ii) poten- 28 tial to reduce disproportionate exposure; and (iii) other information 29 deemed relevant by the department. 30 (b) The department may identify for restriction an initial set of no 31 more than ten of the listed chemicals used in personal care products and 32 cosmetic products that release formaldehyde. Any initial classification 33 as restricted substances shall take effect one year after the depart- 34 ment's adoption of regulations required by this subdivision and be 35 subject to the sales restrictions of subdivisions one and two of this 36 section. 37 (c) Classification as restricted substances on the remaining listed 38 chemicals used in personal care products and cosmetic products that 39 release formaldehyde may take effect two years after the department's 40 adoption of regulations required by this subdivision and shall be 41 subject to the sales restrictions of subdivisions one and two of this 42 section. 43 (d) The department may conduct additional rulemaking activities to 44 develop supplemental lists of chemicals that release formaldehyde and 45 adopt additional restrictions necessary to protect the health and safety 46 of product users. 47 4. (a) No person that sells or offers for sale any personal care prod- 48 uct or cosmetic product shall be held in violation of this section if 49 they can show that they relied in good faith on the written assurance of 50 the manufacturer that such personal care product or cosmetic product 51 meets the requirements of this title. Such written assurance shall take 52 the form of a certificate of compliance stating that the personal care 53 product or cosmetic product is in compliance with the requirements of 54 this title. The certificate of compliance shall be signed by an author- 55 ized official of the manufacturer.A. 6969--B 5 1 (b) In addition to any other applicable penalties, it shall be a 2 violation of this section to provide a certificate of compliance as 3 contemplated by this subdivision when the applicable personal care prod- 4 uct or cosmetic product does not satisfy the limitations on the presence 5 of restricted substances set forth in this title. 6 § 37-1205. Identification of safer alternatives. 7 By January first, two thousand twenty-seven, the department, in 8 consultation with the department of health, shall make use of existing 9 information to identify and assess the hazards of chemicals or chemical 10 classes that can provide the same or similar function in personal care 11 products and cosmetic products as the chemicals or chemical classes 12 listed in section 37-1201 of this title and that can impact vulnerable 13 populations. In doing so they may consult with the New York state 14 pollution prevention institute and the interstate chemicals clearing- 15 house. The department shall make such information publicly available. 16 § 37-1207. Regulations. 17 Within one year of the effective date of this section, the department 18 shall adopt rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of 19 this title. When adopting such rules and regulations, the department 20 shall consider: 21 (a) relevant research; 22 (b) laws and policies in other states; and 23 (c) whether the presence of a restricted substance as a nonfunctional 24 byproduct or nonfunctional contaminant has been banned in another 25 state or within the United States because of the health effects of such 26 substance. 27 § 4. Section 71-3703 of the environmental conservation law is amended 28 by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 29 8. Any person who violates any of the provisions of, or who fails to 30 perform any duty imposed by, section 37-1203 of this chapter or any 31 rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, shall be liable for a 32 civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars for each day during 33 which such violation continues, and in addition thereto, such 34 person may be enjoined from continuing such violation. Such person shall 35 for a second violation be liable to the people of the state for a 36 civil penalty not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for each 37 day during which such violation continues. 38 § 5. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application of 39 any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, or to violate or be 40 inconsistent with any federal law or regulation, that shall not affect 41 the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act, or of 42 any other application of any provision of this act, which can be given 43 effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the 44 provisions and applications of this act are severable. 45 § 6. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 46 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any 47 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its 48 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such 49 effective date.
