[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3990 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3990

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 17, 2021

Mrs. Dingell (for herself, Ms. Kuster, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Katko) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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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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