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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Weber Pierson</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title> An act to add Chapter 14.5 (commencing with Section 108985) to Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to cosmetics.</ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>Cosmetics: chemical hair relaxers.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>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.</html:p>
			<html:p>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.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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				<html:p>This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Combating Unsafe ReLaxers (C.U.R.L.) Act.</html:p>
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				Chapter 14.5 (commencing with Section 108985) is added to Part 3 of Division 104 of the 
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				, to read:
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					<ns0:Num>14.5.</ns0:Num>
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						<ns0:LawHeadingText>Hair Relaxers</ns0:LawHeadingText>
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								<html:p>For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:</html:p>
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									(a)
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									“Department” means the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
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									(b)
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									“Hair relaxer product” means a cosmetic product, as defined in Section 108982, that is sold either as an individual component or as a kit with multiple components and is designed to permanently straighten curly, coiled, or tightly coiled hair by breaking the disulfide bonds found within a person’s hair.
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								<html:p>On or before January 1, 2030, the department shall adopt regulations to implement, interpret, enforce, or make specific this chapter.</html:p>
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									(a)
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									(1)
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									On or before January 1, 2028, the department shall identify and publish on its internet website appropriate third-party accreditations for laboratories for the testing of hair relaxer products for the presence of all of the following intentionally added ingredients:
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									(A)
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									Formaldehyde (CAS no. 50-00-0).
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									(B)
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									Isobutylparaben (CAS no. 4247-02-3).
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									(C)
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									Isopropylparaben (CAS no. 4191-73-5).
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									(D)
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									Cyclohexylamine (CAS no. 108-91-8).
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									(E)
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									Cyclotetrasiloxane (CAS no. 556-67-2),
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									(F)
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									Diethanolamine perfluorooctane sulfonate (CAS no. 70225-14-8).
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									(G)
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									Dibutyl phthalate (CAS no. 84-74-2).
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									(H)
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									Diethylhexyl phthalate (CAS no. 117-81-7).
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									(I)
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									Lily aldehyde (CAS no. 80-54-6).
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									(2)
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									The department may publish on its internet website a list of accepted testing methods for the testing of hair relaxer products for the presence of the ingredients described in paragraph (1).
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									(b)
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									(1)
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									The department may update the
						  list of accepted testing methods as necessary.
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									(2)
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									The department may update the list of intentionally added ingredients described in subdivision (a) to include additional ingredients described in Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980).
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								<html:p>Hair relaxer products are subject to the prohibition against manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product containing an intentionally added ingredient specified in Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980).</html:p>
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									(a)
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									The department may request, and a manufacturer shall provide upon request, technical documentation, including analytical test results, to demonstrate compliance of a hair relaxer product with Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980) for the ingredients described in Section 108985.2.
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									(b)
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									The department may test hair relaxer products to support enforcement of this chapter.
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									(a)
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									The department shall issue a notice of violation to a person or entity if either of the following occurs:
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									(1)
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									The
						  department’s testing of a hair relaxer product or review of a hair relaxer product’s ingredient label indicates that a hair relaxer product contains an intentionally added ingredient described in Section 108985.2.
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									(2)
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									The department finds a violation of this chapter or any rule, regulation, standard, or requirement issued or adopted pursuant to this chapter.
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									(b)
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									A notice of violation shall indicate the nature of the violation, and may do either or both of the following:
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									(1)
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									Assess an administrative or civil penalty against the person or entity.
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									(2)
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									Require compliance with Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980)
						  through specified methods, including requiring the person or entity to cease the manufacture, sale, or distribution of a hair relaxer product in this state.
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									(a)
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									A violation of Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 108980) for the unlawful manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce of a cosmetic product containing any of the ingredients described in Section 108985.2 is punishable by a civil penalty, by an administrative penalty, or by both a civil and an administrative penalty.
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									(b)
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									The department shall determine, on a case-by-case basis, the enforcement mechanism and the amount of any administrative or civil penalty assessed pursuant to this chapter. The minimum amount of an administrative or civil penalty assessed shall be ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the first and any
						  subsequent violation. Penalties may be assessed for each violation of a separate provision or, for continuing violations, for each day that the violation continues.
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									(c)
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									In assessing the amount of a penalty for a violation of this chapter, the department or court may consider all of the following:
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									(1)
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									The nature and extent of the violation.
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									(2)
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									The number and severity of the violations.
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									(3)
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									The economic effect of the penalty on the violator.
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									(4)
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									Whether the violator took good faith measures to comply with this chapter and when the measures were taken.
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									(5)
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									The deterrent effect that the imposition of the penalty would have on both the violator and the regulated community as a whole.
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									(6)
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									Whether there were contributing environmental factors about which a reasonable person knew or should have known.
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									(d)
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									The Attorney General, on behalf of the department, may bring an action in superior court and the court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown, to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person or entity from violating any provision of this chapter. A proceeding under this section shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 525) of Title 7 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, except that the department shall not be required to allege facts necessary to show or
						  tending to show lack of adequate remedy at law or to show or tending to show irreparable damage or loss.
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									(e)
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									Actions may be brought pursuant to this section by the Attorney General in the name of the people of the state at the request of the department.
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									(f)
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									A prevailing plaintiff bringing an action pursuant to this chapter shall be awarded attorney’s fees and costs by the court.
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									(a)
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									(1)
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									The Combating Unsafe ReLaxers (C.U.R.L.) Act Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.
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									(2)
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									Moneys from penalties collected pursuant to Section 108985.6 shall be deposited in the C.U.R.L. Act Fund.
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									(b)
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									Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the C.U.R.L. Act
						  Fund shall be available for the department’s reasonable costs of implementing this chapter.
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									(c)
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									(1)
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									The department’s duties to initiate, implement, or enforce any requirement of this chapter are 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 of this chapter.
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									(2)
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									Upon appropriation by the Legislature and subject to the determination in paragraph (1), if funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account are sufficient to finance the development of the regulations and the startup costs of the department’s activities pursuant to this chapter, funds may be used as a loan by the department
						  for the department to carry out this chapter until the C.U.R.L. Act Fund contains revenues sufficient to fund the department’s reasonable costs of implementing this chapter and to reimburse any outstanding loans made from the Toxic Substances Control Account used to finance the development of the regulations and the startup costs of the department’s activities pursuant to this chapter.
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