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Bill	Hazardous materials: green chemistry: consumer products.	(1) The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous materials and hazardous waste. Existing law, known as the Green Chemistry program, requires the department to adopt regulations to establish a process to identify and prioritize chemicals or chemical ingredients in consumer products that may be considered as being chemicals of concern. Regulations adopted by the department refer to a chemical-product combination that has been identified and prioritized pursuant to that provision as a "priority product." Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations that establish a process for evaluating chemicals of concern in priority products, and their potential alternatives, to determine how best to limit exposure to or to reduce the level of hazard posed by chemicals of concern, as specified. Regulations adopted by the department require a responsible entity, defined to mean a manufacturer, importer, assembler, or retailer, for a priority product to conduct an analysis of alternatives for the priority product. Existing law requires the department's regulations to specify the range of regulatory responses that the department may take following the completion of the analysis of alternatives. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws, including the Green Chemistry program, is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 502	California SB 502 (20212022)	bill	Hazardous materials: green chemistry: consumer products.	enacted	Allen	6	32	8	2021-02-17	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/3d334faa-bb7a-41e3-b3bb-c3d5df4202ad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB502	b3f430344b76a654d5bb8d6cde6055348520098ad01f80f5c65cffa5b00d2313	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 502 (20212022) — Hazardous materials: green chemistry: consumer products.

(1) The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous materials and hazardous waste. Existing law, known as the Green Chemistry program, requires the department to adopt regulations to establish a process to identify and prioritize chemicals or chemical ingredients in consumer products that may be considered as being chemicals of concern. Regulations adopted by the department refer to a chemical-product combination that has been identified and prioritized pursuant to that provision as a "priority product." Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations that establish a process for evaluating chemicals of concern in priority products, and their potential alternatives, to determine how best to limit exposure to or to reduce the level of hazard posed by chemicals of concern, as specified. Regulations adopted by the department require a responsible entity, defined to mean a manufacturer, importer, assembler, or retailer, for a priority product to conduct an analysis of alternatives for the priority product. Existing law requires the department's regulations to specify the range of regulatory responses that the department may take following the completion of the analysis of alternatives. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws, including the Green Chemistry program, is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB502 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 27–5 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 502 Allen Senate Third Reading By Cristina Garcia — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB502 Allen Concurrence — 31–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-05 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2021-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 500.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2021-03-22 March 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1194.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Allen.
• 2022-01-03 From inactive file on motion of Senator Allen.
• 2022-01-03 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-01-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 5. Page 2774.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-18 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2022-06-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 5381.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 701, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3d334faa-bb7a-41e3-b3bb-c3d5df4202ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).