SB 893 & 894: Safe Children's Products Act

A Great Health Priority

The Safe Children’s Products Act would require manufacturers and distributors of children’s toys to submit written statements to the Department of Environmental Quality disclosing chemicals present in the toys. In this statement, the manufacturer or distributor would have to disclose the chemicals of greatest concern in a product, the purpose of these chemicals, and the amount of each chemical that is used. Manufacturers and distributers would submit this statement annually.

The Department of Environmental Quality would be required to post this information on its website in clear, understandable language to provide public access to these records. If a manufacturer or distributor violates any of the terms specified under SB 893, it would be subject to civil fines of up to $150,000 depending on the number of subsequent violations. SB 893 also creates the Children’s Safe Products Fund. All civil fines collected would go into this fund which would be used to carry out the processes of the Safe Children’s Products Act. 

SB 894 defines the process used to determine the Chemicals of Greatest Concern and requires the department to compile a publicaly visable list of those chemicals on its website. 

Sponsor: Sen. Rebekah Warren (D - Ann Arbor)
Current Status: Referred to Senate Committee on Governement Operations