BILL NUMBER: AB 237	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 3, 2011

   An act to add Section 111821 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to cosmetics.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 237, as introduced, Galgiani. Cosmetics: misbranding.
   The existing Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law regulates the
packaging, labeling, and advertising of food, drugs, and cosmetics.
The law prohibits a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering,
holding, offering for sale, or receiving in commerce any cosmetic
that is adulterated, and prohibits a person from adulterating any
cosmetic. Existing law permits any person who manufactures a cosmetic
in this state to register with the State Department of Public
Health.
   This bill would authorize the department, within existing
resources, to require any manufacturer of cosmetics that does not
currently comply with specified parts of the federal Food and Drug
Administration Voluntary Cosmetic Reporting Program to provide to the
department information of the same kind disclosed under that
program.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 111821 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   111821.  The State Department of Public Health may, within
existing resources, require any manufacturer of cosmetic products
that does not currently comply with the applicable parts of the
federal Food and Administration Voluntary Cosmetic Reporting Program,
set forth in Parts 710 and 720 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, to provide to the department information of the same
kind disclosed through the federal Food and Drug Administration
Voluntary Cosmetic Reporting Program.