The range of reactions, both here and elsewhere, has been interesting. I've seen:
THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Soon, the US will have regulations similar to ones in the EU and it will make cottage industry/self-employment all but impossible.
If Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Estee Lauder, L’Oréal, and Revlon approve of this, then it must be evil. Variation 1: small businesses are making a dent in their profits so this is all a ploy to crush them. Variation 2: If they're all so concerned about consumer safety and arming the FDA with real tools to regulate the cosmetic industry, then why aren't they imposing stricter rules on companies that manufacture their goods in "foreign facilities" located in countries with less ethical procedures? Once again, the FDA misses the point! Variation 3: This is yet another example of politicians being too friendly with corporations; they are only concerned with protecting big business interests. Never mind the bipartisan sponsorship, they don't like Democrats/Republicans and it is one more way Democrats/Republicans are trying to ru(i)n their lives.
The FDA is inefficient, incompetent, and corrupt, and they will not succeed in anything good, so this would do nothing. Simultaneously, they will ridicule the FDA for not having legal authority to actually protect people, even though they vigorously oppose legislation that tries to give the FDA the powers they currently lack, such as recalling cosmetics and demanding companies report adverse side effects.
They are irritated that the fees are to be used to fund the FDA. They don't think it's fair to pay the ones who want to police them. But without that, then likely the FDA will end up too underfunded to actually act upon anything, which they would still probably mock anyway.
Similar laws already exist on the state and federal levels, and STILL companies large and small refuse to comply. This means they won't comply if this bill passes too.
This may not affect individual sellers, but might ruin their suppliers if they happen to also sell bases or premades, such as TKB, etc.
It's interesting to see who supports the bill, but want written clarification (exemptions) within the bill about even smaller businesses (registration fees are tiered, but what about anything else?), and who want to see this bill killed before it even gets to the floor despite the real concerns the bill is trying to address, such as the ability to recall products that have reported adverse effects (rather than relying on companies themselves to make that call).
As for me, personally, I am not sure yet how I feel. In the last couple years they've been trying to buff up the FDA and expedite its processes (see: sunscreen), so it's not surprising that they introduced this bill now. But the FDA can barely keep up with the drugs industry; arguably, one can say their oversight of drugs is laughable at best. I know the cosmetics industry is a different playing field, but their track record makes me hesitate to all-out support something that I can see being improperly used.