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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6207 
To substantially restrict the use of animal testing for cosmetics. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 9, 2021 
Mr. BEYER (for himself, Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. 
TONKO, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. MALINOWSKI, Mr. 
QUIGLEY, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. TITUS, Ms. 
SCANLON, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. MICHAEL 
F. DOYLE of Pennsylvania, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. 
KILMER, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mrs. 
AXNE, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
BROWNLEY, Ms. SHERRILL, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. LEE of Cali-
fornia, Mr. FOSTER, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Mr. 
POCAN, Mr. DEFAZIO, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. 
DELBENE, Ms. NORTON, Mrs. MURPHY of Florida, Mr. WALTZ, Ms. 
STEVENS, Mr. SARBANES, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. 
HOULAHAN, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. FITZPATRICK, Mr. SCHWEIKERT, 
Mr. KHANNA, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. COOPER, Ms. LOIS 
FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. KATKO, Mr. 
ALLRED, Mr. SOTO, Mr. LIEU, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. CICILLINE, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. BLUNT 
ROCHESTER, Mr. NADLER, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Miss RICE of New York, 
Mr. LAMB, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms. CHU, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mrs. LURIA, Ms. 
DAVIDS of Kansas, Ms. LOFGREN, and Mrs. TRAHAN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce 
A BILL 
To substantially restrict the use of animal testing for 
cosmetics. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Humane Cosmetics 
Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. ANIMAL TESTING. 
(a) PROHIBITION ON ANIMAL TESTING.—Beginning 
on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person, whether 
private or governmental, to knowingly conduct or contract 
for cosmetic animal testing that occurs in the United 
States. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON SALE OR TRANSPORT.—Begin-
ning on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act, it shall be unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or 
knowingly transport in interstate commerce in the United 
States any cosmetic product that was developed or manu-
factured using cosmetic animal testing that was conducted 
or contracted for by any person in the cosmetic product’s 
supply chain after such date. 
(c) DATA USE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—No evidence derived from 
animal testing conducted after the effective date 
specified in subsection (a) may be relied upon to es-
tablish the safety of a cosmetic, cosmetic ingredient, 
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or nonfunctional constituent under the Federal 
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et 
seq.), unless— 
(A) in the case of such testing on an ingre-
dient or nonfunctional constituent, there is no 
non-animal alternative method or strategy rec-
ognized by any Federal agency, the Interagency 
Coordinating Committee on the Validation of 
Alternative Methods, or the Organisation for 
Economic Co-operation and Development for 
the relevant safety endpoints for such ingre-
dient or nonfunctional constituent; and 
(B)(i) such animal testing is subject to an 
exemption under paragraph (2) or (3) of sub-
section (d); or 
(ii)(I) such animal testing is subject to an 
exemption under paragraph (4) of subsection 
(d); 
(II) there is documented evidence of the 
non-cosmetic intent of the test; and 
(III) there is a history of use of the ingre-
dient outside of cosmetics at least 1 year prior 
to the reliance on such data. 
(2) LIMITATION.—This section shall not be con-
strued to prohibit any entity from reviewing, assess-
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