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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 4436 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to cosmetic safety, with an emphasis on communities of color and... · Sec. 9

Sec. 9. Food and Drug Administration regulation of synthetic braids

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Section 201(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 321(i) ) is amended by striking the appearance and inserting the appearance (including synthetic braids) . Section 602 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 362 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: If it is a set of synthetic braids that do not meet the safety standards required by section 9 of the Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025 and the labeling and packaging of the synthetic braids— does not display a warning label with the following statement:
This product does not meet the FDA’s standard of safety for synthetic braids. ; or such warning is not displayed on the website of the manufacturer of the synthetic braids. . Section 614(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. 364j(b) ) is amended to read as follows: Notwithstanding subsection (a), nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any State (or a political subdivision thereof) from— prohibiting the use or limiting the amount of an ingredient in a cosmetic product; continuing to implement a requirement of such State (or a political subdivision thereof) that is in effect at the time of enactment of the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 for the reporting to the State (or a political subdivision thereof) of an ingredient in a cosmetic product; or implementing a requirement of such State (or a political subdivision thereof) that provides for greater transparency, disclosure, or protection with respect to synthetic braids than the requirements established under the amendments made by the Cosmetic Safety for Communities of Color and Professional Salon Workers Act of 2025 (or continuing to implement any such requirement that is in effect as of the date of the enactment of such Act).
Nothing in the amendments to this Act made by the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 shall be construed to preempt any State statute, public initiative, referendum, regulation, or other State action, except as expressly provided in subsection (a). . Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, shall issue regulations to implement the amendments made by subsections
(a)and (b). Such regulations shall establish safety standards for the use of synthetic braids.
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