BILL NUMBER: AB 237INTRODUCED 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.