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.
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.
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; origin ocd-bill/11d9f42e-4324-4dc0-b866-9729a7335c71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).