Thank you, Chair.
I suggested this amendment in order to provide clarity and to assist where we believe this committee would like to go, and provide the appropriate tools. An analogy I would use is that of somebody building a house and banging a nail with a screwdriver. We're handing them a hammer and saying, this is the appropriate tool
. So if the goal is to deal with phthalates, we're suggesting that the Food and Drugs Act would be the appropriate statute, not CEPA.
The member is quite right: if they want to move ahead and provide a bill that is not well written, is not using the right tools, the committee has that right. I'm suggesting that it should be well written, and we're hoping to be able to support the bill. If it's poorly written, using the wrong statute for enforcement, then one would question why it would not have the right tools. Is it for optics? We need to have a bill that is realistic and uses the right tools.