Humane Cosmetics Act of 2025
Latest action · Feb 27, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 27, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Humane Cosmetics Act of 2025
This bill generally prohibits animal testing in the evaluation of cosmetic products, and it prohibits the sale or transport of cosmetics developed using animal testing, subject to civil penalties. These prohibitions begin one year after enactment.
The bill specifies exceptions to these prohibitions, including if such animal testing (1) is conducted outside the United States to comply with a foreign regulatory authority; (2) is pursuant to a finding by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that there are no nonanimal alternatives to test the safety of a potentially dangerous cosmetic product or ingredient; (3) is of a product or ingredient for a drug or device subject to regulation by the FDA; or (4) is required for a noncosmetic purpose pursuant to a state, federal, or foreign regulatory authority.
Further, evidence derived from animal testing conducted more than one year after the bill's enactment may not be used to establish the safety of a cosmetic product or ingredient that is regulated by the FDA, subject to limited exceptions.
Cosponsors 161
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 27, 2025 to Oct 29, 2026; 46 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-OR | Andrea Salinas | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Bradley Scott Schneider | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-GA | David Scott | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NC | Deborah K. Ross | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IN | Frank J. Mrvan | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-RI | Gabe Amo | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-AZ | Greg Stanton | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NY | Gregory W. Meeks | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-MI | Hillary J. Scholten | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | J. Luis Correa | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-OR | Janelle S. Bynum | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-CA | Ken Calvert | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Kevin Mullin | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-WA | Kim Schrier | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Linda T. Sánchez | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-TX | Lloyd Doggett | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-GA | Lucy McBath | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-PA | Mary Gay Scanlon | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NJ | Mikie Sherrill | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-NY | Nicole Malliotakis | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-GA | Nikema Williams | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Raja Krishnamoorthi | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-CA | Robert Garcia | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Robin L. Kelly | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-IL | Sean Casten | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-FL | Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-MA | Stephen F. Lynch | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-VA | Suhas Subramanyam | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-WA | Suzan K. DelBene | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-OR | Suzanne Bonamici | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NY | Timothy M. Kennedy | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-LA | Troy A. Carter | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Original | Feb 27, 2025 |
| D-NC | Donald G. Davis | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-HI | Jill N. Tokuda | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-NJ | Josh Gottheimer | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Scott H. Peters | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | Mar 3, 2025 | |
| R-PA | Brian K. Fitzpatrick | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Marilyn Strickland | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Patrick Ryan | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-KS | Sharice Davids | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-MI | Shri Thanedar | Mar 4, 2025 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| D-VA | Jennifer L. McClellan | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| D-KY | Morgan McGarvey | Mar 5, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Darren Soto | Mar 10, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Delia C. Ramirez | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Josh Harder | Mar 11, 2025 | |
| D-OH | Joyce Beatty | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-TX | Lizzie Fletcher | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Maxwell Frost | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-OR | Val T. Hoyle | Mar 18, 2025 | |
| D-CT | John B. Larson | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Mar 21, 2025 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Mar 24, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Eric Sorensen | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| D-DE | Sarah McBride | Apr 1, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Brad Sherman | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Apr 7, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Mike Levin | Apr 8, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Lauren Underwood | Apr 9, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Apr 17, 2025 | |
| D-CT | James A. Himes | Apr 29, 2025 | |
| D-MA | William R. Keating | Jun 4, 2025 | |
| D-MD | Kweisi Mfume | Jun 6, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Jun 23, 2025 | |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Jun 24, 2025 | |
| D-IN | André Carson | Jul 2, 2025 | |
| D-NH | Maggie Goodlander | Jul 10, 2025 | |
| D-PR | Pablo José Hernández | Jul 22, 2025 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Aug 12, 2025 | |
| D-VT | Becca Balint | Aug 15, 2025 | |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Aug 15, 2025 | |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Aug 22, 2025 | |
| D-CO | Diana DeGette | Aug 29, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Aug 29, 2025 | |
| D-GA | Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. | Sep 15, 2025 | |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Sep 26, 2025 | |
| D-VA | James R. Walkinshaw | Sep 26, 2025 | |
| D-RI | Seth Magaziner | Sep 26, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Mike Thompson | Oct 17, 2025 | |
| D-IL | Nikki Budzinski | Oct 17, 2025 | |
| D-OH | Emilia Strong Sykes | Oct 21, 2025 | |
| D-NY | Joseph D. Morelle | Nov 17, 2025 | |
| D-OR | Maxine Dexter | Nov 20, 2025 | |
| D-CA | Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. | Dec 12, 2025 | |
| D-NY | George Latimer | Jan 7, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Jared Moskowitz | Feb 9, 2026 | |
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-PA | Christopher R. Deluzio | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-MD | Glenn Ivey | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-OH | Greg Landsman | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-MA | Lori Trahan | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Raul Ruiz | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-GA | Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-MA | Seth Moulton | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-PA | Summer L. Lee | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-NC | Valerie P. Foushee | Mar 2, 2026 | |
| D-MA | Richard E. Neal | Mar 3, 2026 | |
| D-CT | Rosa L. DeLauro | Mar 4, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Donald Norcross | Mar 5, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Pete Aguilar | Apr 2, 2026 | |
| R-CA | Young Kim | Apr 21, 2026 | |
| D-NM | Gabe Vasquez | Apr 27, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | May 19, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Sydney Kamlager-Dove | May 20, 2026 | |
| D-TX | Sylvia R. Garcia | Jun 15, 2026 | |
| D-WA | Rick Larsen | Jul 13, 2026 | |
| R-FL | Carlos A. Gimenez | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| D-NJ | Jefferson Van Drew | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Julia Brownley | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| D-PA | Madeleine Dean | Jul 15, 2026 | |
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| D-FL | Lois Frankel | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| R-NY | Michael Lawler | Jul 16, 2026 | |
| D-TX | Christian D. Menefee | Jul 20, 2026 | |
| D-NV | Steven Horsford | Jul 20, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Jonathan L. Jackson | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| D-AL | Shomari Figures | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Jul 21, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Panetta | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| R-NY | Nick LaLota | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| D-OH | Shontel M. Brown | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| D-TX | Veronica Escobar | Jul 22, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Salud O. Carbajal | Jul 23, 2026 | |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Jul 27, 2026 | |
| R-CA | David G. Valadao | Aug 3, 2026 | |
| D-CT | Joe Courtney | Aug 6, 2026 | |
| D-TX | Vicente Gonzalez | Aug 6, 2026 | |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Aug 13, 2026 | |
| R-NJ | Thomas H. Kean, Jr. | Aug 13, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Bill Foster | Aug 31, 2026 | |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Aug 31, 2026 | |
| D-CA | Lateefah Simon | Sep 10, 2026 | |
| D-CT | Jahana Hayes | Sep 24, 2026 | |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Oct 6, 2026 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | Oct 22, 2026 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Oct 22, 2026 | |
| D-MI | Haley M. Stevens | Oct 29, 2026 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Feb 27, 2025 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2025Introduced in House
- Feb 27, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 171, no. 39, February 27, 2025, page H918.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To substantially restrict the use of animal testing for cosmetics, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Humane Cosmetics Act of 2025
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Animal protection and human-animal relationships
- Civil actions and liability
- Computers and information technology
- Cosmetics and personal care
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Federal preemption
- Government information and archives
- Health
- Manufacturing
- Retail and wholesale trades
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 27, 2025Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
