California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB762: Disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device: prohibition and penalties.
Status: Chaptered, September 28, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 22974.2 of the Business and Professions Code, and to add Chapter 5.1 (commencing with Section 42260) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to vapor inhalation devices. vapor inhalation devices Disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device: prohibition and penalties. (1) Existing law regulates the manufacture, sale, and disposal of various single-use products, including single-use foodware accessories and condiments and single-use carryout bags…
From the chaptered text, September 28, 2026:
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 22974.2 of the Business and Professions Code, and to add Chapter 5.1 (commencing with Section 42260) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to vapor inhalation devices. vapor inhalation devices Disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device: prohibition and penalties. (1) Existing law regulates the manufacture, sale, and disposal of various single-use products, including single-use foodware accessories and condiments and single-use carryout bags. Existing law prohibits a store from, among other things, providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag at the point of sale, except as specified. Existing law defines terms for these purposes. This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2027, a person from importing or manufacturing for sale in this state a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device, and, beginning January 1, 2028, a person from selling, distributing, or offering for sale a new or refurbished disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device in this state. The bill would define a “disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device” to mean a vaporization device that contains a tobacco product, as defined, but not cannabis or a cannabis product, as defined, and that is not designed or intended to be reused, as specified. Existing law authorizes a city, county, city and county, or the state, to impose civil liability on a …