republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-324.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Glass beads: lead and arsenic."
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 a chemical of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. That law prohibits, until January 1, 2015, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or offering for promotional purposes in this state, glass beads that contain more than a specified amount of arsenic or lead if those glass beads will be used with certain types of blasting equipment and requires, until January 1, 2015, each container or bag of glass beads sold for surface preparation to be labeled in a specific manner. Existing law also prohibits, until January 1, 2015, these glass beads from being considered as a product category subject to the chemicals of concern regulations. A violation of the hazardous control law is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 324"
citation: "California AB 324 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Glass beads: lead and arsenic."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-13"
last_action: "2013-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/074d4b93-1599-4b70-801a-6a9c6db4ff64"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324"
source_hash: "ef3357641afde9f8930f27bc958239c054ea5fed262a6d3b59a3bd665e416688"
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 324 (20132014) — Glass beads: lead and arsenic.

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 a chemical of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. That law prohibits, until January 1, 2015, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or offering for promotional purposes in this state, glass beads that contain more than a specified amount of arsenic or lead if those glass beads will be used with certain types of blasting equipment and requires, until January 1, 2015, each container or bag of glass beads sold for surface preparation to be labeled in a specific manner. Existing law also prohibits, until January 1, 2015, these glass beads from being considered as a product category subject to the chemicals of concern regulations. A violation of the hazardous control law is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32499INT)
2. **06/18/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32498AMD)
3. **07/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32497AMD)
4. **08/14/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32496AMD)
5. **09/06/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32494CHP)
6. **AB324** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324)
7. **08/27/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB324&version=20130AB32495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB324 Bloom By Lara — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 324 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 324 BLOOM Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1121.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-06-18** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-08-13** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1892.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2647.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 230, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/074d4b93-1599-4b70-801a-6a9c6db4ff64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).