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SB 236 — Cosmetics: chemical hair relaxers.

Congress · introduced 2025-10-11

Latest action: — Secretary of State

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · 126 — Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
  2. · 4 — From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 1.
  3. · 5 — Referred to Com. on RLS.
  4. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  5. · 345 — Re-referred to Coms. on E.Q. and JUD.
  6. · 124 — Set for hearing April 23.
  7. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.
  8. · 951 — Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
  9. · 21 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 866.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  10. · 28 — From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 938.) (April 29).
  11. · 37 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. · 124 — Set for hearing May 19.
  13. · 343 — May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  14. · 124 — Set for hearing May 23.
  15. · 32 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  16. · 110 — Ordered to special consent calendar.
  17. · 45 — Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1323.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  18. · 56 — In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  19. · 144 — Referred to Coms. on E.S & T.M. and JUD.
  20. · 39 — From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.
  21. · 27 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  22. · 28 — From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (July 15).
  23. · 37 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  24. · 969 — August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  25. · 8 — From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
  26. · 36 — Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  27. · 32 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  28. · 851 — Ordered to third reading.
  29. · 61 — Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2997.) Ordered to the Senate.
  30. · 76 — In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  31. · 77 — Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2901.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  32. · 86 — Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
  33. · 90 — Approved by the Governor.
  34. · 94 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 598, Statutes of 2025.

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Weber Pierson, M.D., Akilah (D, state_upper CA-39)sponsor0—5

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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