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Commission on the Status of Women Legislative Tracking Sheet 2025
AB 60 (Papan, D) Cosmetic Safety.
Last Amended: 03/24/2025
Summary: Existing law, commencing 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 except under specified circumstances. This bill, the Musk Reduction Act, would expand that prohibition by adding musk ambrette, musk tibetene, musk moskene, and musk xylene to the list of banned ingredients. The bill would also, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit the use of musk ketone in cosmetic products in excess of specified amounts, including 1.4% in fine fragrance products, and oral products, as defined. Nitro musks are synthetic fragrance compounds widely used in soaps, perfumes, shampoos, and deodorants, and are known endocrine disruptors. Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals is linked to early puberty, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, polycystic ovary syndrome, menstrual irregularities, and infertility. Nitro musk compounds have been found in blood, breast milk, and adipose tissue.
AB 60 would align California safety standards with regulations adopted by the European Commission in 2022 that fully banned or otherwise restricted nitro musk ingredients in personal care products. (Based on 03/24/2025 text)
CSW Position: Support
Status: This bill was referred to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on 05/14/2025.
AB 65 (Aguiar-Curry, D) School and community college employees: paid disability and parental leave.
Last Amended: 12/03/2024
Summary: Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, and the governing board of a community college district, to provide for a leave of absence from duty for a certificated employee or an academic employee of the district who is required to be absent from duty because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery from those conditions.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, and the governing board of a community college district, to provide for a leave of absence from duty as it deems appropriate for a female employee in the classified service of the district who is required to be absent from duty because of pregnancy or convalescence following childbirth. Existing law authorizes a governing board to adopt rules and regulations about leaves of absence for classified employees for these purposes, and authorizes a governing board to provide in the rules and regulations whether the leave granted shall be with or without pay, as provided.
This bill would delete the latter provisions authorizing a governing board of a school district and the governing board of a community college district to adopt those rules and regulations.
The bill instead would require a public school employer to, for a certificated employee or an employee in the classified service of the public school employer, and would require a community college district to, for an academic employee or an employee in the classified 2 service of the community college district, provide up to 14 weeks of a leave of absence with specified pay benefits for an employee who is required to be absent from duty because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, or recovery from those conditions, as provided. The bill would authorize the paid leave to begin before and continue after childbirth if the employee is actually disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, or a related condition. The bill would prohibit a leave of absence taken pursuant to these provisions from being deducted from other leaves of absence, as provided, and would require public school employers and community college districts to maintain group health coverage for an employee who takes a leave of absence under these provisions for the duration of the leave of absence at the same level and under the same conditions that coverage would have been provided if the employee had not taken a leave of absence. The bill would prohibit any other eligibility requirements, including, but not limited to, minimum hours worked or length of service, before an employee disabled by pregnancy, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, or related medical conditions is eligible for a paid leave of absence under these provisions. (Based on 12/03/2024 text)
CSW Position: Support
Status: The bill was referred to the Senate Committees on Education; Labor, Public Employment and Retirement; and Appropriations as of 06/11/2025.
AB 798 (Calderon, L) State Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program: diapers and wipes.
Last Amended: 04/22/2025
Summary: Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to appropriation, to administer the State Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program in order to provide food and funding for the provision of emergency food and related costs to food banks serving low-income Californians to prevent hunger during natural or human-made disasters, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to distribute funds under the program upon a proclamation or declaration of a disaster or state of emergency. Under existing law, a recipient of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program who is participating in a welfare-to-work plan is eligible for $30 per month to assist with diaper costs for each child who is under 36 months of age. Under the Budget Act of 2024, certain funding is appropriated to the department to allocate to specified food banks and other regional entities for the purpose of distributing diapers and wipes to low-income families with infants or toddlers.
This bill would include children’s diapers and wipes in the list of supplies under the State Emergency Food Bank Reserve Program. The bill would authorize the use of funds distributed under the program for purchasing and distributing children’s diapers and wipes in eligible communities and for reimbursing food banks, as specified. (Based on 04/22/2025 text) CSW Position: Support
Status: This bill is in the Senate as of 06/04/2025.
SB 411 (Perez, S) Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025.
Last Amended: 05/23/2025
Summary: The federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 authorized a new permanent, nationwide Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer Program, also known as SUN Bucks or Summer EBT, beginning in 2024 and 2025. SUN Bucks is designed to provide groceries to children who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals, by providing $40 per eligible child for each of the three summer months that school is not in session. Existing federal regulations require, 3 by 2025, the designated state agency to make a Summer EBT application available to households whose children are enrolled in schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program and who do not already have an individual eligibility determination. Existing state law requires the state Department of Social Services (DSS), as the lead agency in partnership with the California Department of Education (CDE), to maximize participation in the Summer EBT program. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to make paper applications for free or reduced- price meals available to pupils at all times during each regular school day, and to make an application electronically available online if the online application complies with certain requirements.
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program that are approved to operate a federal provision, must collect Universal Benefits Applications for SUN Bucks eligibility on an annual basis. This will ensure that students who attend schools serving meals to all students under the federal regulations can apply for SUN Bucks eligibility.
As the new Universal Benefits Application is a static PDF that does not allow families to complete and submit it online, this bill requires the CDE, with support from DSS, to develop a statewide application that is made available through a single statewide website that enables families to submit federally required information. The statewide application must be made available with sufficient time for families to apply for summer of 2027 benefits and be capable of routing a family’s completed information to the family’s local educational agency (LEA) to determine Summer EBT eligibility. The bill would require an application submitted through the internet website to constitute an application for purposes of free or reduced-price meals, as specified. (Based on 05/23/2025 text)
CSW Position: Support
Status: This bill was referred to the Committees on Education and Human Services in the Assembly on 06/05/2025.