---
type: "Bill"
title: "Product safety: bisphenol A."
description: "Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control law, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. The department is prohibited from duplicating or adopting conflicting regulations for regulated product categories. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1319"
citation: "California AB 1319 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Product safety: bisphenol A."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11d9f42e-4324-4dc0-b866-9729a7335c71"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319"
source_hash: "57ac3805255ad421cd78e7c7b6918def5e0efcb94657216a0e7221dfe1732e4a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1319 (20112012) — Product safety: bisphenol A.

Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control law, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. The department is prohibited from duplicating or adopting conflicting regulations for regulated product categories. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131999INT)
2. **04/28/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131998AMD)
3. **05/10/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131997AMD)
4. **06/28/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131996AMD)
5. **07/12/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131995AMD)
6. **08/22/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131994AMD)
7. **10/04/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131992CHP)
8. **AB1319** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319)
9. **09/09/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1319&version=20110AB131993ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 1319 BUTLER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **49–27** (pass) · lower
- AB 1319 BUTLER Assembly Third Reading — **42–29** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Health. — **6–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–7** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1319 Butler By De León — **21–12** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Bradford — coauthor (person)
- Brownley — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- De León — coauthor (person)
- Dickinson — coauthor (person)
- Eng — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gatto — coauthor (person)
- Huffman — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Ma — coauthor (person)
- Pavley — principal coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-21** Referred to Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-27** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (April 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-28** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-09** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 7.) (May 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-10** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 29. Page 1510.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 2133.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 2889.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 467, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/11d9f42e-4324-4dc0-b866-9729a7335c71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).