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 03/17/26 - Amended Senate
 02/11/26 - Introduced

 SB-1046 Occupational safety: transboundary pollution.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/09/2026 09:00 PM

SB1046:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 09, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 17, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1046

Introduced by Senators Blakespear and Padilla

February 11, 2026

 An act to add Section 6726 to the Labor Code, relating to occupational safety. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1046, as amended, Blakespear.
 Occupational safety: transboundary pollution.

Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, exists for the purpose of assuring safe and healthful working conditions for all California workers by authorizing the enforcement of effective standards, assisting and encouraging employers to maintain safe and healthful working conditions, and providing for research, information, education, training, and enforcement in the field of occupational safety and health. Existing law establishes the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board within the Department of Industrial Relations for the adoption of occupational safety and health standards and establishes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health in that department for the enforcement of those occupational safety and health standards, as prescribed. 

This bill would require the division, on or before January 1,
 2030, to propose to the board for its review and adoption, a standard that protects the health and safety of employees who risk high or prolonged exposure to transboundary pollution, as defined, in outdoor occupational environments, as specified. The bill would require the board to consider identifying an exposure threshold for hydrogen sulfide at which acute or chronic health effects occur to reference in the standards and may consider exposure thresholds for other relevant pollutants. The bill would authorize the board to develop the standards standard in consultation with other specified groups. The bill would authorize the board to adopt emergency regulations to implement these provisions.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Transboundary pollution consisting of untreated sewage and industrial wastewater, containing toxic chemicals, fecal matter bacteria, and pathogens, frequently crosses the border from Baja California as a result of population growth, sewage infrastructure inadequacies, and wet weather events.

(b) In the County of San Diego, transboundary pollution enters into the Tijuana River Valley and through northward-flowing ocean currents, leading to the contamination of state waters and air, and creating conditions that are hazardous
 to the environment and public health.

(c) Workers in outdoor occupational environments in the Tijuana River Valley and county beaches risk higher exposure to transboundary pollution through direct and indirect contact and have experienced and reported adverse health impacts, including headaches, fatigue, nausea, and bloody noses. Long-term exposure to known contaminants may lead to gastrointestinal illness, skin infections, and respiratory and neurological disorders.

(d) While binational solutions are underway at the federal level to address the majority of pollution that crosses the border, the hazardous environmental conditions created by transboundary pollution are expected to continue for years. Furthermore, the increasing frequency and intensity of wet weather events will exacerbate
 hazardous conditions, even after binational solutions are in place.

(e) The employers of workers in outdoor occupational environments currently lack the guidance to provide adequate safeguards to protect the health and safety of employees or tools to measure the impacts of the outdoor working environment.

(f) Thus, the Legislature recognizes a need for occupational safety and health standards to ensure a level of protection for workers exposed to transboundary pollution in outdoor occupational environments.

SEC. 2.

 Section 6726