BILL NUMBER: AB 1930	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member De La Torre

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 108940) to Part
3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to consumer
safety.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1930, as introduced, De La Torre. Consumer safety: glass beads.

    Existing law prohibits the manufacture, processing, and
distribution in commerce of products containing certain chemicals
found to raise health risks, including, but not limited to,
polybrominated diphenyl ether.
   This bill would prohibit 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 and
lead, if those glass beads will be used with certain types of
blasting equipment. The bill would require each container or bag of
glass beads sold for surface preparation to be labeled in a specified
manner.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 108940) is added to
Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 12.   LEAD AND ARSENIC CONTENT IN GLASS BEADS


   108940.  (a) A person shall not manufacture, sell, offer for sale,
or offer for promotional purposes in this state glass beads that
contain more than 75 part per million (ppm) arsenic and 100 ppm lead
by weight, if those glass beads will be used with pressure or suction
blasting equipment or wet-type or dry-type blasting equipment.
   (b) For purposes of compliance with subdivision (a), the weight
percentage of arsenic and lead shall be determined in accordance with
EPA 3052 modified and EPA 6010C or a generally accepted instrumental
method with traceable standards, including X-ray fluorescence.
   (c) Each container or bag of glass beads sold in this state for
surface preparation, including the cleaning, peening, finishing, and
deburring of aluminum and stainless steel products, and that will be
used with pressure or suction blasting equipment or wet-type or
dry-type blasting equipment, shall be labeled with the following:

   "Glass bead contents contain less than 75 ppm arsenic and 100 ppm
lead, as determined by EPA 3052 and EPA 6010C or a generally accepted
instrumental method with traceable standards."