Status: Died in Senate Appropriations Committee
This bill would require that plastic caps on defined plastic beverage containers be ‘tethered’ to the container in a manner that helps ensure the caps remain with the container throughout its lifecycle, thereby reducing a significant and especially harmful source of plastic pollution.
This bill would prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a covered product, such as cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, juvenile products, and food packaging that contain intentionally added PFAS, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. This bill would also, beginning on and after January 1, 2040, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale certain products that contains intentionally added PFAS, including refrigerants, solvents, propellants, and clean fire suppressants unless the department has made a determination that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or the product is previously used.
This bill would streamline licensing requirements for Alternative Birth Centers (ABCs), increasing access to additional birthing options for California’s families.Existing law requires ABCs to be certified as Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP) providers as a condition of licensure. AB 55 would delete this requirement, and make it easier for ABCs to provide needed maternity care.
This bill would restrict the presence of nitro musk chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products. This restriction will reduce Californians’ exposure to chemicals that not only harm the environment but also harm the health of individuals, especially women and girls.
This bill would help ensure schools can
provide students with the latest federally
approved epinephrine delivery systems to treat instances of anaphylaxis. Specifically, the bill replaces all references to epinephrine auto-injectors
in the education code with epinephrine
delivery systems to account for recent
and future changes to how epinephrine
can be administered to individuals
undergoing an allergic reaction or
anaphylaxis.
This bill would require a school district, if it elects to provide sexual health education or HIV prevention education to be taught by outside consultants, to also provide notice of the name of the organization or affiliation of the outside consultants to parents.
This bill would establish the California Farm to School Program for purposes of cultivating equity, nurturing students, building climate resilience, and creating scalable and sustainable change in the school food system. Additionally, it would increase the use of in-state farms and use of foods that “are whole or minimally processed from food producers in California for school meal programs and to increase hands-on food education opportunities that engage pupils and connect the classroom with the cafeteria.
This bill would prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, or offering for sale, into commerce in this state consumer body wash and hand soap that contains a prohibited ingredient, which includes substances such as benzalkonium chloride, among others. The bill would not apply to products intended for use in health care facilities.
