Bill Text: CA AB246 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Product safety: menstrual products: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-02-01 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB246 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB246-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
September 01, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
July 10, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 12, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 10, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 09, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Papan (Coauthors: Senators Blakespear and Skinner) |
January 17, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Chapter 14.5 (commencing with Section 108985) is added to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:CHAPTER 14.5. Menstrual Products
108985.
For purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following definitions:108986.
(a) Commencing January 1, 2025, no person shall manufacture, distribute, sell, or offer for sale in the state any menstrual products that contain regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.(e)(1)A person or entity that violates this section shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per day for each violation. The civil penalties under this subdivision shall begin accruing on the date an action is brought pursuant to paragraph (2).
(2)An action to enforce this section may be brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, a county counsel, or a district attorney in a court of competent jurisdiction.
(3)For purposes of this section, a violation is deemed to have occurred upon the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offer for sale, as applicable, of a menstrual product in violation of this section. Menstrual products that belong to the same stock keeping unit (SKU) as the menstrual product in violation of this section and manufactured, distributed, sold, or offered for sale, as applicable, prior to an action brought under paragraph (2) are considered part of the same, single violation.
(f)