Bill Text: AZ HB2528 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Personal care products; plastic microbeads

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - Introduced in House and read first time [HB2528 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-HB2528-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: personal care products; plastic microbeads

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

HB 2528

 

Introduced by

Representatives Mendez, Andrade, Cardenas, Espinoza, Hale, Otondo, Plumlee, Rios: Allen J, Alston, Benally, Bowers, Clark, Fernandez, Gabaldón, Gonzales, Larkin, Lawrence, Meyer, Norgaard, Thorpe, Velasquez, Senator Dalessandro

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 44, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding chapter 36; relating to personal care products.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 44, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding chapter 36, to read:

CHAPTER 36

PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS CONTAINING SYNTHETIC PLASTIC MICROBEADS

ARTICLE 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

START_STATUTE44-7851.  Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1.  "Label" includes:

(a)  A drug facts panel.

(b)  A statement of the active ingredients with a list of those ingredients contained in the compound, substance or preparation.

2.  "Over‑the‑counter drug" means a drug that is a personal care product that contains a label that identifies the product as a drug as required by 21 Code of Federal Regulations section 201.66.

3.  "Personal care product":

(a)  Means any article intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled or sprayed on, introduced into or otherwise applied to the human body or any part of the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness or altering appearance and includes any article intended for use as a component of any such article.

(b)  Does not include any prescription drug.

4.  "Plastic" means a synthetic material made from linking monomers through a chemical reaction to create an organic polymer chain that can be molded or extruded at high heat into various solid forms that retain their defined shapes during their life cycle and after disposal.

5.  "Synthetic plastic microbead" means any intentionally added nonbiodegradable solid plastic particle that measures less than five millimeters in size and that is used to exfoliate or cleanse in a rinse-off product. END_STATUTE

START_STATUTE44-7852.  Personal care products; synthetic plastic microbeads; prohibitions; civil penalty

A.  Beginning January 1, 2017, a person may not manufacture for sale a personal care product, except for an over-the-counter drug, that contains synthetic plastic microbeads.

B.  Beginning January 1, 2018, a person may not do either of the following:

1.  Accept for sale a personal care product, except for an over‑the‑counter drug, that contains synthetic plastic microbeads.

2.  Manufacture for sale an over‑the‑counter drug that contains synthetic plastic microbeads.

C.  Beginning January 1, 2019, a person may not accept for sale an over‑the‑counter drug that contains synthetic plastic microbeads.

D.  A person who violates this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for the first violation and not more than two thousand five hundred dollars for a second or subsequent violation. END_STATUTE

START_STATUTE44-7853.  Enforcement

The attorney general shall enforce this chapter. END_STATUTE