Senate BillNo. 625


Introduced by Senator Galgiani

February 27, 2015


An act relating to waste management.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 625, as introduced, Galgiani. Water pollution: synthetic plastic microbeads.

The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) prohibits any person, in the course of doing business, from knowingly and intentionally exposing any individual to a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity without giving a specified warning, or from discharging or releasing such a chemical into any source of drinking water, except as specified.

This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would prevent water pollution from synthetic plastic microbeads.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
2legislation that would prevent water pollution from synthetic plastic
3microbeads.



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