Product safety: proofs of purchase: intentionally added bisphenols.

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary does not provide specific dates for enforcement beyond what is stated.

Product Safety: No Bisphenols in Receipts

This law stops businesses and manufacturers from using certain harmful chemicals called bisphenols in paper receipts given to customers, starting in 2028.

What This Bill Does

• Bans the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in paper proofs of purchase after January 1, 2028.
• Expands the ban to include all intentionally added bisphenols after January 1, 2029.
• Sets fines for breaking this rule: $5,000 for the first time and up to $10,000 each time afterward.
• Requires manufacturers to use safer alternatives when replacing harmful chemicals in receipts.
• Prohibits using other dangerous chemicals as replacements.

Who It Names or Affects

• Businesses that give out paper proofs of purchase (like receipts).
• Manufacturers who make these types of papers or products.

Terms To Know

Bisphenol A (BPA)

A chemical used in some plastics and resins that can be harmful to health.

Paper proofs of purchase

Receipts or other documents given by businesses as proof of a transaction.

Limits and Unknowns

• The exact date for the ban on all bisphenols is January 1, 2029.
• It does not specify how many times someone can break the rule before facing higher fines.

Official Summary Text

AB 1604, as amended, Stefani.
Product safety: proofs of purchase: intentionally added bisphenols.
Existing law prohibits a person from manufacturing, selling, or distributing in commerce any juvenile’s feeding product or juvenile’s sucking or teething product, as defined, that contains any form of bisphenol, as defined, at a detectable level above the practical quantitation limit, as determined by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, except as provided.
This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1,
2027,
2028,
a
person from manufacturing, distributing, or offering for sale a
paper proof of purchase
provided to a consumer by a business or created by a manufacturer from
containing intentionally added bisphenol A, as defined, and, on and after January 1,
2028, from
2029,
containing any intentionally added bisphenols, as defined. The bill would specify that a violation would be punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for a first violation, and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation. The bill would require all penalties collected pursuant to this bill to be deposited into the Toxic Substances Control Account, to be available for expenditure by the Department of Toxic Substances Control upon appropriation by the Legislature, as specified. The bill would authorize the department, the Attorney General, a county counsel, a district attorney, or a city attorney to enforce these provisions and would entitle a prevailing plaintiff who establishes a violation of
these provisions to an award of reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. The bill would require a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing any form of bisphenol in a paper proof of purchase product. The bill would also prohibit a manufacturer from replacing any form of bisphenol pursuant to these provisions with chemicals known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, or with any chemical identified by the department as a Candidate Chemical, as specified.

Current Bill Text

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