Status: Senate Environmental Quality Committee

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: Senate Environmental Quality 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:Sen Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee

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: Senate Environmental Quality Committee

This bill would prohibit the department from registering a pesticide that has not been previously registered by the department and contains perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pesticide ingredients, defined as PFAS that are intentionally added as active, adjuvant, or inert ingredients, unless an application for registration of that pesticide was submitted to the department before January 1, 2027. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2028, classify a pesticide registered for agricultural use that contains PFAS pesticide ingredients as a restricted material subject to the above-described permitting requirement, and would require specified statements to be included on the permit and in a public disclosure by the department of its use.

Status: Senate Environmental Quality Committee

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: Senate Appropriations Committee

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.