CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1027Introduced by Assembly Member SeyartoFebruary 18, 2021 An act relating to solid waste. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1027, as introduced, Seyarto. Solid and organic waste.Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. Existing law declares the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by the year 2020, and annually thereafter. Existing law requires each jurisdiction to implement a solid waste recycling program appropriate for that jurisdiction designed to divert commercial solid waste from businesses subject to specified commercial solid waste recycling requirements. Existing law also requires each jurisdiction to implement an organic waste recycling program appropriate for the jurisdiction and designed to specifically divert organic waste generated by businesses subject to specified organic waste recycling requirements. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief from those solid waste recycling, composting, and source reduction requirements and organic waste recycling requirements, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19.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. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19 from the requirements of Chapter 476 of the Statutes of 2011 relating to solid waste and Chapter 727 of the Statutes of 2014 relating to organic waste.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1027Introduced by Assembly Member SeyartoFebruary 18, 2021 An act relating to solid waste. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1027, as introduced, Seyarto. Solid and organic waste.Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. Existing law declares the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by the year 2020, and annually thereafter. Existing law requires each jurisdiction to implement a solid waste recycling program appropriate for that jurisdiction designed to divert commercial solid waste from businesses subject to specified commercial solid waste recycling requirements. Existing law also requires each jurisdiction to implement an organic waste recycling program appropriate for the jurisdiction and designed to specifically divert organic waste generated by businesses subject to specified organic waste recycling requirements. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief from those solid waste recycling, composting, and source reduction requirements and organic waste recycling requirements, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1027
Introduced by Assembly Member SeyartoFebruary 18, 2021
Introduced by Assembly Member Seyarto
February 18, 2021
An act relating to solid waste.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1027, as introduced, Seyarto. Solid and organic waste.
Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. Existing law declares the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by the year 2020, and annually thereafter. Existing law requires each jurisdiction to implement a solid waste recycling program appropriate for that jurisdiction designed to divert commercial solid waste from businesses subject to specified commercial solid waste recycling requirements. Existing law also requires each jurisdiction to implement an organic waste recycling program appropriate for the jurisdiction and designed to specifically divert organic waste generated by businesses subject to specified organic waste recycling requirements. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief from those solid waste recycling, composting, and source reduction requirements and organic waste recycling requirements, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19.
Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. Existing law declares the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by the year 2020, and annually thereafter. Existing law requires each jurisdiction to implement a solid waste recycling program appropriate for that jurisdiction designed to divert commercial solid waste from businesses subject to specified commercial solid waste recycling requirements. Existing law also requires each jurisdiction to implement an organic waste recycling program appropriate for the jurisdiction and designed to specifically divert organic waste generated by businesses subject to specified organic waste recycling requirements.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief from those solid waste recycling, composting, and source reduction requirements and organic waste recycling requirements, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19 from the requirements of Chapter 476 of the Statutes of 2011 relating to solid waste and Chapter 727 of the Statutes of 2014 relating to organic waste.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19 from the requirements of Chapter 476 of the Statutes of 2011 relating to solid waste and Chapter 727 of the Statutes of 2014 relating to organic waste.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19 from the requirements of Chapter 476 of the Statutes of 2011 relating to solid waste and Chapter 727 of the Statutes of 2014 relating to organic waste.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to provide relief, for no more than one year, to cities and municipalities struggling due to the impacts of COVID-19 from the requirements of Chapter 476 of the Statutes of 2011 relating to solid waste and Chapter 727 of the Statutes of 2014 relating to organic waste.
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