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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 39: Cosmetic safety: vaginal suppositories.

Enacted Official data

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

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 39 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on December 3, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Cosmetic safety: vaginal suppositories. Primary sponsor: Akilah Weber Pierson (D). Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 208, Statutes of 2025.

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.

Existing law, beginning on January 1, 2027, 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, including boric acid, except under specified circumstances.

This bill would extend that prohibition to January 1, 2035, for vaginal suppositories containing intentionally added boric acid. The bill would require, beginning on January 1, 2027, any vaginal suppository product containing boric acid to include a product label, as defined, warning consumers that the product should not be used during pregnancy and other specified conditions. The bill would also exempt a vaginal suppository product from the above-mentioned prohibitions if the product becomes regulated by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

The bill would make related findings and declarations.

This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 108980 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 60 to be operative only if this bill and AB 60 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Akilah Weber PiersonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate39

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 208, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2901.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2980.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended.
  9. Ordered to third reading.
  10. Action rescinded whereby bill was read a third time, urgency clause adopted, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
  11. In Assembly. Held at Desk.
  12. Ordered to the Assembly.

Sources

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