CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 792Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 20, 2019 An act to add Section 14542 to the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 792, as introduced, Ting. Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum content standards.Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. Existing law requires a manufacturer of a beverage sold in a plastic beverage container subject to the California Redemption Value to annually report to the department the amount of virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used by the manufacturer for plastic beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value for sale in the state in the previous calendar year. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 14542 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 792Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 20, 2019 An act to add Section 14542 to the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 792, as introduced, Ting. Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum content standards.Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. Existing law requires a manufacturer of a beverage sold in a plastic beverage container subject to the California Redemption Value to annually report to the department the amount of virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used by the manufacturer for plastic beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value for sale in the state in the previous calendar year. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 792
Introduced by Assembly Member TingFebruary 20, 2019
Introduced by Assembly Member Ting
February 20, 2019
An act to add Section 14542 to the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 792, as introduced, Ting. Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum content standards.
Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer. Existing law requires a manufacturer of a beverage sold in a plastic beverage container subject to the California Redemption Value to annually report to the department the amount of virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used by the manufacturer for plastic beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value for sale in the state in the previous calendar year. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer.
Existing law requires a manufacturer of a beverage sold in a plastic beverage container subject to the California Redemption Value to annually report to the department the amount of virgin plastic and postconsumer recycled plastic used by the manufacturer for plastic beverage containers subject to the California Redemption Value for sale in the state in the previous calendar year.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 14542 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 14542 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
SECTION 1. Section 14542 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.
14542. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would set minimum content standards for plastic beverage containers in California.