---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cosmetic safety."
description: "Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients except under specified circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 496"
citation: "California AB 496 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cosmetic safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Friedman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-07"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4277ffa0-c266-4475-a152-cc66ac5bdaae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496"
source_hash: "58bdf2bf73148af8736d35efcf501ace07081537a666a1fa18bb55c6a621bdc5"
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 496 (20232024) — Cosmetic safety.

Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients except under specified circumstances.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496&version=20230AB49699INT)
2. **03/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496&version=20230AB49698AMD)
3. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496&version=20230AB49696CHP)
4. **AB496** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496)
5. **09/08/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB496&version=20230AB49697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 496 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB496 Friedman et al. By Skinner — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Friedman — primary (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 823.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-03-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2387.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 441, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4277ffa0-c266-4475-a152-cc66ac5bdaae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).