A bill prohibiting the state from working with companies that don't comply with regulations on conflict minerals has passed...[a] committee of the California State Senate...[The] bill would prohibit the state government from contracting with companies that fail to comply with federal regulations on conflict minerals...laid out in last year's Dodd-Frank financial reform act...David Sullivan, Enough Project's Director of Research,...said: "The link between the war in eastern Congo, the deadly trade in conflict minerals, and the use of these minerals in electronics and other high-tech industries has been well understood for a long time...But for most of this decade, companies were content to accept vague assurances from their suppliers..., allowing conflict minerals to continue to flow into international markets, and into our cell phones and laptops..." The growing push for legislation at the state and local level is giving teeth to the federal conflict mineral regulations..., Sullivan said.