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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 823: Solid waste: plastic microbeads: plastic glitter.

Vetoed Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Vetoed

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 823 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 19, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Solid waste: plastic microbeads: plastic glitter. Primary sponsor: Tasha Boerner (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (January 22, 2026): Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

The Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law prohibits a person, as defined, from selling or offering for promotional purposes in this state a personal care product containing plastic microbeads that are used to exfoliate or cleanse in a rinse-off product, including, but not limited to, toothpaste. Existing law exempts a product containing less than one part per million (ppm) by weight of plastic microbeads from the prohibition. The Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 per day for each violation of the prohibition, as provided, and authorizes the Attorney General and local officials to enforce the prohibition.

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2029, prohibit a person from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or offering for promotional purposes in this state a personal care product containing plastic glitter, or a personal care product in a non-rinse-off product or a cleaning product containing one ppm or more by weight of plastic microbeads that are used as an abrasive, as specified. The bill would authorize, until January 1, 2030, a person to continue to sell, offer for sale, distribute, or offer for promotional purposes in this state an existing stock of personal care products containing plastic glitter, as specified. By adding these prohibitions to the Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, the bill would impose the civil penalty for violations of these prohibitions.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Tasha BoernerPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly77
Lena GonzalezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate33

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
  2. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
  3. Vetoed by Governor.
  4. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  5. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2436.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
  9. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  10. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  12. Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page