The proposed Cosmetic Modernization Amendments of 2015 (H.R. 4075) now enjoys bipartisan support, with Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, signing on as a cosponsor March 14. The bill has been slower to pick up congressional backers than initially anticipated by the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors ([A#02151130006]). The trade group has been championing the bill as an alternative to the Personal Care Products Safety Act in the Senate, S. 1014, which it views as an overly burdensome threat to small business that lacks adequate preemption provisions to ensure national uniformity of regulations. Compared with the draft PCPSA's limited preemption framework, the CMA would bar states and local governments from establishing new requirements related to cosmetic ingredient use, labeling, registration and reporting, while seeking to void any existing programs of the sort ([A#02151130001]). The Personal Care Products Council, which has joined with prominent NGOs and leading industry players in support of the PCPSA, speculated recently that the best chance for updating cosmetics regulations in the US may be a compromise of the two bills in the next Congress Also see "PCPC: Cosmetic Legislation A Long Shot In 2016, But Objectives Are Clear" - HBW Insight, 2 March, 2016..
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., signed on as a cosponsor of the Personal Care Products Safety Act March 7. Gillibrand was a leading force in the passage of federal microbead legislation, introducing the Microbead-Free Waters Act in the Senate in September 2014 ([A#02141103008]). She's been a vocal proponent of increased oversight in the cosmetics sector, proposing a bill in 2009 – the Safe Baby Products Act – that would have directed FDA to investigate the safety of cosmetics marketed for children's use and establish good manufacturing practices for industry. The legislation was a direct reaction to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics' "Toxic Tub" report issued that year ([A#02300180010_b]). The PCPSA, S