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Senate committee hears SB 236 to ban hair relaxers with endocrine-disrupting chemicals
Summary
Authors and public health groups urged the Senate Environmental Quality Committee to approve SB 236, which would prohibit manufacture, distribution or sale of hair relaxers containing specified endocrine-disrupting chemicals; bill was held open for a vote when a quorum is present and later clearedd by the committee.
Sen. Weber Pierson, the bill’s author, introduced SB 236 to the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality as a ban on manufacturing, distributing or selling hair relaxers containing certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
Pierson said the products are commonly marketed to women and adolescent girls, “predominantly of color,” and that research links some ingredients to…
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