AB-1148 • 2026

Food packaging: hazardous chemicals.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Sharp-Collins
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify what happens if companies accidentally include these chemicals below a certain level.

Food Packaging: Hazardous Chemicals

This law stops companies from making, selling, or giving away food packaging that has certain harmful chemicals in California starting January 1, 2027.

What This Bill Does

Bans the use of bisphenols and ortho-phthalates in food packaging starting January 1, 2027.
Allows the Department of Toxic Substances Control to create rules about how much of these chemicals can be in food packaging after an appropriation by the Legislature.
Prohibits selling or distributing food packaging with too many bisphenols or ortho-phthalates at or above a threshold established by regulations, no sooner than a year after those regulations are made.
Gives the Department and Attorney General power to enforce these rules and fine violators up to $10,000 for each time they break the law.

Who It Names or Affects

Food packaging manufacturers
Retailers who sell food packaging
Companies that distribute food packaging

Terms To Know

Bisphenols: A type of chemical used in plastics and resins.
Ortho-phthalates: Chemicals often found in plasticizers, which make plastic more flexible.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill needs money from the Legislature to be fully implemented.
It does not specify what happens if companies accidentally include these chemicals below a certain level.

Bill History

2026-05-28 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-06-27 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-17 California Legislative Information
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.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and HEALTH.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 11. Page 1880.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23).
2025-05-07 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-24 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 22).
2025-04-09 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-04-01 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S & T.M. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Coms. on E.S & T.M. and JUD.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1148, as amended, Sharp-Collins.
Food packaging: hazardous chemicals.
Existing law prohibits a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any plant-based food packaging that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, as defined.
This bill
would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2027, the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains intentionally added bisphenols or ortho-phthalates, as defined. The bill
would
authorize
require, subject to an appropriation,
the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt
regulations to
restrict or prohibit the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains intentionally added
establish a threshold in food packaging for
bisphenols or
ortho-phthalates,
ortho-phthalates that are not intentionally added,
as specified.
The bill would also prohibit, no sooner than a year after the adoption of those regulations, the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains bisphenols or ortho-phthalates at or above that threshold.
The bill would authorize the department and the Attorney General to enforce
the restrictions or prohibition
these prohibitions
and would subject a person to an administrative or civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation of
the restriction or
a
prohibition and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, as specified. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account to be used by the department to implement these provisions.

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