Status: Signed into law

This bill would prohibit a person from importing or manufacturing for sale in this state a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device, and a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device in this state. The bill would define a “disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device” to mean a vaporization device that contains nicotine but not cannabis or a cannabis product and that is not designed or intended to be reused.

Status: Died in Committee

This bill would prohibit the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains intentionally added bisphenols or ortho-phthalates. The bill would require, subject to an appropriation, the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a threshold in food packaging for bisphenols or ortho-phthalates that are not intentionally added. The bill would also prohibit, no sooner than a year after the adoption of those regulations, the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains bisphenols or ortho-phthalates at or above that threshold.

Status: Vetoed by Governor

This bill, the California Sensitive Data
Privacy Act, would ban the sale of all
sensitive personal information, including but not limited to a consumer’s, social security number, financial account information, precise geo-location, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, genetic data, biometric information, health information, sexual orientation or citizenship and immigration status.

Status: Signed into law

This bill would require the department to indicate if a pesticide contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pesticide ingredients, as defined, in the pesticide use reporting database on its internet website, include PFAS as a category of interest for purposes of that database, and include pesticide use trends of PFAS pesticide ingredients from the pesticide database in the pesticide use annual report and other relevant pesticide use reporting documents. The bill would also require the department to publish a list of all registered pesticides that contain PFAS pesticide ingredients and submit this list to the commissioner of each county, and to, within 60 calendar days of the registration of a new pesticide containing PFAS pesticide ingredients, update the list on its internet website and submit the updated list to the commissioner of each county.

Status: Signed into law

This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2028, a person from manufacturing, distributing, or offering for sale a paper proof of purchase containing intentionally added bisphenol A, as defined, and, on and after January 1, 2029, containing any intentionally added bisphenols. The bill would require a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing any form of bisphenol in a paper proof of purchase product. The bill would also prohibit a manufacturer from replacing any form of bisphenol pursuant to these provisions with chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm.

Status: Signed into Law

This bill would require the commission, during the next revision of the publication “Health Framework for California Public Schools,” to consider including, and recommending for adoption by the state board, specific content related to the prevention of, and recognizing and responding to the signs and symptoms of, heat illness and, for those purposes, to consider relevant guidance issued by the State Department of Public Health and policies adopted by the California Interscholastic Federation.