United States · Bill · S
S. 1424 (114th)
Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015
Introduced
21 May 2015
Last action
21 May 2015 · Introduced
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Sponsors
Kirsten Gillibrand, Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH], Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI], Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL], Gary Peters, Tammy Baldwin, Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH], Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT], Christopher Murphy, Richard Blumenthal
Subjects
Healthcare
Source updated
12 August 2025
Summary
Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban cosmetics that contain synthetic plastic microbeads beginning on January 1, 2018.
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Timeline
21 May 2015
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Source: IntroReferral
21 May 2015
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 21 May 2015 · Official file
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 21 May 2015
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 21 May 2015
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 21 May 2015
Sponsors
- Kirsten Gillibrand · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] · R · Sponsor
- Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Kirk, Mark Steven [R-IL] · R · Sponsor
- Gary Peters · D · Sponsor
- Tammy Baldwin · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] · D · Cosponsor
- Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] · D · Cosponsor
- Christopher Murphy · D · Cosponsor
- Richard Blumenthal · D · Cosponsor
- · sshr00 · Standing
Related records
- related to → Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015
Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1424
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/s/1424
- us · 114-s-1424 · source updated 12 August 2025