Bill Text: NY S04780 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits cosmetic manufacturers or suppliers of cosmetic ingredients from placing any cosmetic or ingredient produced solely for use in cosmetics in an animal's eye or on it's skin for the purpose of measuring the irritancy of such cosmetic or ingredient.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04780 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04780-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4780
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting animal
         irritancy tests for cosmetics
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  505-b to read as follows:
    3    S 505-B. ANIMAL IRRITANCY TESTS FOR COSMETICS PROHIBITED. 1. EXCEPT AS
    4  SPECIFICALLY REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW OR REGULATION:
    5    (A) NO COSMETIC MANUFACTURER SHALL CONDUCT OR HAVE  ANY  OTHER  PERSON
    6  CONDUCT ON ITS BEHALF, ANY TEST WHICH INVOLVES THE PLACING OF A COSMETIC
    7  IN  AN  ANIMAL'S  EYE  OR  ON AN ANIMAL'S SKIN TO MEASURE ITS IRRITATING
    8  EFFECTS.
    9    (B) ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  ELEVEN  NO  PERSON  SHALL
   10  CONDUCT  OR  HAVE  ANY OTHER PERSON CONDUCT ON ITS BEHALF ANY TEST WHICH
   11  INVOLVES THE PLACING OF A COSMETIC INGREDIENT IN AN ANIMAL'S EYE  OR  ON
   12  AN  ANIMAL'S  SKIN  TO MEASURE ITS IRRITATING EFFECTS IF SUCH INGREDIENT
   13  WAS PRODUCED SOLELY FOR USE IN A COSMETIC.
   14    (C) NO COSMETIC MANUFACTURER SHALL SELL, OFFER FOR SALE OR  CAUSE  ANY
   15  OTHER  PERSON  TO  SELL OR OFFER FOR SALE ON ITS BEHALF A COSMETIC WHICH
   16  WAS PLACED IN AN ANIMAL'S EYE OR ON AN  ANIMAL'S  SKIN  TO  MEASURE  ITS
   17  IRRITATING EFFECTS IF SUCH PROCEDURE OCCURRED ANY TIME SUBSEQUENT TO THE
   18  EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
   19    2.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE
   20  THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   21    (A) "ANIMAL" MEANS A VERTEBRATE NONHUMAN ANIMAL.
   22    (B) "COSMETIC" MEANS ARTICLES INTENDED TO BE  RUBBED,  POURED,  SPRIN-
   23  KLED,  OR SPRAYED ON, INTRODUCED INTO, OR OTHERWISE APPLIED TO THE HUMAN
   24  BODY OR ANY PART THEREOF FOR CLEANSING, BEAUTIFYING,  PROMOTING  ATTRAC-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09844-01-9
       S. 4780                             2
    1  TIVENESS,  OR  ALTERING  THE APPEARANCE, EXCEPT THAT SUCH TERM SHALL NOT
    2  INCLUDE INGREDIENTS OF SUCH ARTICLES AND SHALL NOT INCLUDE SOAP.
    3    (C)  "COSMETIC MANUFACTURER" MEANS ANY INDIVIDUAL, PARTNERSHIP, CORPO-
    4  RATION, ASSOCIATION, OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY THAT PRODUCES A COSMETIC  FOR
    5  SALE TO THE PUBLIC.
    6    (D)  "PERSON"  MEANS ANY INDIVIDUAL, PARTNERSHIP, CORPORATION, ASSOCI-
    7  ATION OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    9  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.