2012 State Legislation

Legislative Leadership Awards
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What's Up with Waste?

• Presentation hosted by Assemblymember Chesbro
  
  CPSC staff partnered with staff from Californians Against Waste and CalRecycle to provide an educational briefing on EPR and other waste and recycling issues to legislative staff in Sacramento.  
  
  
  Caroll Mortensen, Director of CalRecycle provides an update to legislative staff.

Legislative Leadership Award to Assembly Speaker John Perez

CPSC Executive Director, Heidi Sanborn presenting Assembly Speaker John Perez with an award for his leadership in promoting product stewardship in California. Speaker Perez is the author of AB 2398.


Assembly Speaker John Perez with Heidi Sanborn and Pete Price from the Assembly Speaker's Office

Bills We Are Tracking

• SB 419, Simitian - Home Generated Sharps: WATCH
  
  This is a two year bill. This bill as written would amend current regulations requiring pharmaceutical manufacturers who sell or distribute medication that is self-injected to annually submit a plan to CalRecycle, to submit these plans in an electronic format and have manufacturers post and maintain a copy of their plan on its website.   
  
  
  • SB 419 Fact Sheet 3/22/11
    
    
    
• SB 589, Lowenthal - Mercury Lamp Stewardship: WATCH
  
  This is a two year bill and we continue to be in negotiation with all parties; lamp industry, retailers, local government and environmental groups to see if there can be common ground identified to create a successful program. CPSC is also working with Senator Lowenthal’s office to introduce a secondary bill which would attempt a parallel approach shifting existing subsidies for fluorescent lamps to LED lamps and direct DTSC to develop a stewardship plan to manage existing and newly purchased fluorescent lamps.
  
  
• AB 1442, Wieckowski – Unwanted Pharmaceuticals Reverse Distribution: SUPPORT
  
  As written, this bill would amend current regulations to redefine pharmaceutical waste under the Medical Waste Management Act and allow common carrier transport (instead of costly medical waste haulers) of pharmaceutical waste. This change will ultimately make it easier to recover unwanted pharmaceuticals from the public by reducing the cost of transport and bringing California one step closer to EPR.
  
  
  • AB 1442 Fact Sheet 2/29/12
    
    
  • CPSC Letter of Support for AB 1442 3/2/12
    
    
  • Model Letter of Support for AB 1442
    
    
• SB 1118, Hancock - Mattress Management: WATCH
  
  This bill would require manufacturers of mattresses, on and after July 1, 2013, to establish and implement a program to collect and recycle used mattresses from consumers. In lieu of establishing the program, a manufacturer may voluntarily choose to remit to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, a payment of $25 for each mattress sold in the State, requiring CalRecycle to facilitate the mattress recovery program. SB1118 passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on April 23. The bill was first heard in Senate Appropriations on May 7 and was placed on the Suspense File. The bill must move out of the Suspense file by May 25 to remain active.

2012 Bills that Died

• SB 515, Corbett - Battery Stewardship: This bill is no longer active.