Akilah Weber Pierson
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 39
Author
Existing law prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients except under specified circumstances. This bill, the Combating Unsafe ReLaxers (C.U.R.L.) Act, would prohibit any person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any hair relaxer product, as defined, that contains any of a specified list of intentionally added ingredients. The bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2030, as specified, for the purposes of implementing, interpreting, enforcing, or making specific these provisions. The bill would require the department to identify and publish on its internet website, on or before January 1, 2028, appropriate third-party accreditations for laboratories for the testing of the ingredients described above, and would authorize the department to publish on its internet website a list of accepted testing methods for the testing of hair relaxer products for the presence of those ingredients. The bill would authorize the department to request, and would require a manufacturer of a hair relaxer product to provide upon request, documentation, including test results, to demonstrate compliance with the provisions described above. The bill would authorize the department to test hair relaxer products in order to support enforcement of the provisions described above. The bill would require the department to issue a notice of violation of the provisions described above under specified circumstances and would require the notice to specify the nature of the violation and would authorize the department to either assess a specified penalty, require compliance with specified law, or both. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by administrative or civil penalties, as specified, and would authorize the Attorney General, on behalf of the department or on behalf of the people of the state at the request of the department, to bring an action to enforce these provisions. The bill would create, and would require all moneys collected from penalties to be deposited in, the C.U.R.L. Act Fund. The bill would make the department's duties to initiate, implement, or enforce any of these requirements contingent upon sufficient funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account, as determined by the Department of Finance, and an appropriation by the Legislature for the purposes of implementing and enforcing the requirements. The bill would, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the Department of Finance, if it determines there are sufficient funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account to finance the development of the regulations and the startup costs of the Department of Toxic Substances Control's activities required by the bill, to loan funds to the department from the account to carry out the activities required by the bill until the C.U.R.L. Act Fund contains revenues sufficient to fund the department's reasonable costs of implementing the bill and to reimburse any outstanding loans made from the account used to finance the development of the regulations and the startup costs of the department's activities.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 598, Statutes of 2025.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2901.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2997.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time and amended.
Ordered to third reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Ordered to special consent calendar.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1192.) (May 23).
Set for hearing May 23.
May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 19.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 938.) (April 29).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 866.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
Set for hearing April 23.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| SB236 | HTML |
| 01/29/25 - Introduced | |
| 03/26/25 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/09/25 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/01/25 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/25/25 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/17/25 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly | |
| 09/13/25 - Enrolled | |
| 10/11/25 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/21/25- Senate Environmental Quality | |
| 04/25/25- Senate Judiciary | |
| 05/16/25- Senate Appropriations | |
| 05/25/25- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 06/27/25- Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials | |
| 07/11/25- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 08/18/25- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 09/03/25- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/05/25- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 09/08/25- Sen. Floor Analyses |
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