Bill Text: CA SB625 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waste management: synthetic plastic microbeads.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB625 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB625-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 625	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act relating to waste management.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 625, as introduced, Galgiani. Water pollution: synthetic
plastic microbeads.
   The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986
(Proposition 65) prohibits any person, in the course of doing
business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to
a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive
toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from discharging or
releasing such a chemical into any source of drinking water, except
as specified.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would prevent water pollution from synthetic plastic
microbeads.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would prevent water pollution from synthetic plastic
microbeads.