Porn film performers in California would be required to use condoms in sex scenes if a draft proposal from a state workplace safety panel becomes law. The California Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board has released tentative rules that would mandate “use of condoms or other barrier protection to prevent genital and oral contact with the blood or (any other bodily fluids) of another person.”

The draft is scheduled for discussion at a public meeting in Los Angeles on June 7.

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation started lobbying the state in 2009 to require condoms in porn. The controversy pits health groups against most of the California porn industry, which has resisted regulation Vivid Entertainment CEO Stephen Hirsch recently told NPR that he thought a condom mandate could wipe out California’s multi-billion dollar adult film industry and that Vivid Video tried it before, for nearly seven years. “When we became a mandatory-condom company, we saw sales drop by about 20 percent,” Hirsch said.

“People will shoot in Europe; people will shoot in Mexico. People will go to other places to shoot," he added. “And you'll see an industry move out of this state.

The June 7 meeting will be the first for Cal/OSHA’s advisory committee on safety in the adult film industry.