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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION

All legislation shown on this page is specific to the state of California.  Click on the year below to see California legislation related to CPSC's Mission each legislative session.

2025 LEGISLATION
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​AB-80, Carpet recycling: product stewardship for carpets: fines. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D - Winters). SPONSORED BY CPSC. 

The act includes a product stewardship for carpet program and a successor carpet producer responsibility program, and requires the product stewardship for carpet program to become inoperative upon the completion of certain conditions related to the implementation of the successor carpet producer responsibility program.

The product stewardship for carpet program requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state, individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, to submit a carpet stewardship plan to the department, which is required to include specified elements, including achieving specified carpet recycling rates and a funding mechanism that provides sufficient funding to carry out the plan. The program authorizes the department to administratively impose a civil penalty of $25,000 per day on any person in violation of the program if the violation is intentional, knowing, or negligent.

 

​AB-762, Single-use Vaping Devices Sales Ban. Assemblymembers Irwin (D - Thousand Oaks) and Wilson (D - Suisun City). SPONSORED BY CPSC, RethinkWaste, CAW, and CalPIRG. 

This bill would authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state, to enforce the above-described disposable, battery-embedded vapor inhalation device prohibition and to impose civil liability on a person or entity in violation of the prohibition in specified fine amounts, including $500 for the first violation.

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AB-864, Hazardous waste: solar photovoltaic modules. Assemblymember Ward (D - San Diego). CPSC LED.

This bill would exempt solar photovoltaic modules not identified as hazardous waste and treated, except as provided, as universal waste, as defined, from state hazardous waste regulations, if transferred to a designated recycler for legitimate recycling, as described, and if the facility meets specified criteria relating to registration permits, as provided. The bill would make the universal waste designation applicable to a solar photovoltaic module that is intended for recycling and cannot otherwise be resold, reused, or refurbished only until the department adopts regulations implementing alternative management standards for solar photovoltaic modules. The bill would also designate a solar photovoltaic module that can be resold, reused, or refurbished as surplus material. The bill would make a conforming change.

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​AB-663, Hydrofluorocarbon gases: sales and distribution prohibition: exemptions. Assemblymember McKinnor (D- Los Angeles). SUPPORT.

This bill would eliminate the exemption for reclaimed hydrofluorocarbons and would instead create a new exemption for certified reclaimed refrigerants, as defined. By eliminating the exemption for reclaimed hydrofluorocarbons, the bill would expand the scope of a crime and thereby impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. 

  • Current Status:

    • Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. 04/24/2025. Set for hearing 4/28/2025.

    • CPSC Letter of Support

 

AB-823, Solid waste: plastic microbeads. Assemblymember Boerner (D - Encinitas).

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotional purposes in this state a cleaning product, as defined, or a personal care product in a rinse-off product, containing one ppm or more by weight of plastic microbeads that are used as an abrasive, as specified. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit a person from selling, distributing, or offering for promotional purposes in this state a coating, as defined, cleaning product, or personal care product, that contains one ppm or more by weight of plastic microbeads that are not used as an abrasive. By adding these prohibitions to the Plastic Microbeads Nuisance Prevention Law, the bill would impose the civil penalty for violations of these prohibitions.     

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AB-916, Safer Soap Act. Assemblymember Lee (D - Milpitas). CPSC SUPPORT

Existing law prohibits various ingredients in consumer products for the protection of the health of Californians, including, among others, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in juvenile products, textile articles, and food packaging, and intentionally added Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in intravenous solution containers, as specified. This bill would, commencing January 1, 2028, prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, or offering for sale, into commerce in this state consumer hand soap or body wash that contains a prohibited ingredient, which includes substances such as benzalkonium chloride, among others. The bill would not apply to products intended for use in health care facilities.

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AB-942, Net energy metering: eligible customer-generators: tariffs. Assemblymember Calderon (D - Whitter).

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, for a customer that becomes a new eligible customer-generator by purchasing real property that contains a renewable electrical generation facility upon which a prior eligible customer-generator took service, require the new eligible customer-generator to take service under the then-current applicable tariff adopted by the commission after December 1, 2022, would disqualify the new eligible customer-generator from eligibility for the avoided cost calculator plus glide path, as specified, and would require the new eligible customer-generator to pay all nonbypassable charges that are applicable to customers that are not eligible customer-generators. This bill would authorize the commission to adopt a new tariff for an above-described eligible customer-generator that has taken service pursuant to NEM 1.0 or 2.0 for 10 or more years, or a new eligible customer-generator that purchased real property that contains a renewable electrical generation facility, and to require those eligible customer-generators to use that new tariff if it results in a lower cost impact on customers who are not eligible customer-generators than the prior tariff that was applicable to those eligible customer-generators, as provided.

  • Current Status: 

    • Re-referred to Committee on Utilities and Energy 03/26/25. Set for hearing 04/30/2025.

  • CPSC Opposition Letter

 

​AB-998, Household hazardous waste: vape pens. Assemblymember Hadwick (R - Alturas). CPSC SUPPORT.

Under this bill, a vape pen confiscated by a school as contraband is presumed to have been generated by a household and does not lose its status as household hazardous waste when properly managed and disposed of at a household hazardous waste collection facility or through a household hazardous waste collection program. The bill would impose the above-described conditions relating to the transport of hazardous waste on a school, as defined, or its contractor, transporting confiscated vape pens to a household hazardous waste collection facility. The bill would authorize a household hazardous waste collection facility to conduct physical treatment activities involving the disassembly of household hazardous waste to separate batteries, valves, electronic components and other parts containing liquids or gases, including, but not limited to, the disassembly of vape pens, in a manner that does not result in the unauthorized release of hazardous materials. The bill would make related conforming changes.

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AB-1148, Food packaging: hazardous chemicals. Assemblymember Sharp-Collins (D - San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would authorize the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to restrict or prohibit the distribution, sale, or offering for sale in the state of food packaging that contains intentionally added antimony trioxide, bisphenols, or ortho-phthalates, as specified. The bill would authorize the Department and the Attorney General to enforce the restrictions or prohibition and would subject a person to an administrative or civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for the first violation of the restriction or prohibition and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, as specified. The bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize funds in the Toxic Substances Control Account to be used by the department to implement these provisions.

  • Current Status:

    • Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 04/24/2025. Hearing TBD. 

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SB-14, Solid waste: recycling: state agencies and large state facilities.. Senator Blakespear (D- San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. 

This bill would require a state agency , on or before July 15, 2027, each state agency to submit an adopted integrated waste management plan to the department for review and approval, and would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the department to complete its review of the plans, as specified. The bill would require a state agency’s annual report to include summaries of the state agency’s compliance with the requirement to reduce solid waste by 50% and the requirements relating to the adoption of an integrated waste management plan. This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit state agencies from entering into, modifying, amending, or renewing a contract, on or after January 1, 2026, to purchase single-use plastic bottles, as defined, made of less than 90% recycled plastic for internal use or resale and would require state agencies to take appropriate steps to replace the use of single-use plastic bottles at food service facilities with nonplastic, recyclable, and reusable alternatives, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that any new, modified, or renewed agreements, contracts, or procurement undertaken by a food service facility as part of a contract or agreement with the Department of General Services comply with the bill, as specified. The bill would require state agencies to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2027, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, confirming its compliance with these requirements. The bill would define a state agency for these purposes to include various agencies. 

  • Current Status:

    • Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. 04/23/2025. Set for hearing on 04/30/2025.

    • CPSC Letter of Support

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SB-45, Recycling: beverage containers: tethered plastic caps. Senator Padilla (D - San Diego). CPSC SUPPORT. 

The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling.  Existing law authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a quality incentive payment of up to $180 per ton to qualified recyclers for thermoform plastic containers diverted from curbside recycling programs, as provided. This bill would delete that authorization. The bill would instead require, on and after January 1, 2027, beverage containers, as defined, intended for sale in this state, to have a cap that is tethered to the container that prevents the separation of the cap from the container when the cap is removed from the container by the consumer. The bill would exempt beverage containers with a capacity of 3 liters or more from the scope of the bill. By creating a new requirement under the act, a violation of which would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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SB-235, Recycling: precious metals and critical minerals: report. Senator McNerney (D - Stockton). 

Existing law establishes in the California Environmental Protection Agency the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, which administers various solid waste management and recycling programs. This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to draft and submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2028, relating to the in-state collection, recycling, reuse, and stockpiling for domestic consumption of precious metals, critical minerals, as defined, and other similar valuable materials as reasonably decided by the department, contained within products in the state, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide opportunities for public input and to perform outreach to potentially interested parties, as specified.

 

​SB-501, Household Hazardous Waste Producer Responsibility Act. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles).

This bill would create a producer responsibility program for products containing household hazardous waste and would require a producer responsibility organization (PRO) to ensure the safe and convenient collection and management of covered products at no cost to consumers or local governments. The bill would define “covered product” to mean a consumer product that is ignitable, toxic, corrosive, or reactive, or that meets other specified criteria. The bill would require a producer of a covered product to register with the PRO, which would be required to develop and implement a producer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products. The bill would require DTSC to adopt regulations to implement the program with an effective date no earlier than July 1, 2028. The bill would require the PRO, within 12 months of the effective date of the regulations, to submit a producer responsibility plan to DTSC. The bill would require the plan to include specified elements, including a funding mechanism to fully fund the PRO and the program. The bill would require, within 6 months of receipt of the plan, DTSC to approve, approve in part, or disapprove the plan, as specified. The bill would require DTSC to notify the PRO of its decision. 

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SB-561, Hazardous waste: Emergency Distress Flare Safe Disposal Act. Senator Blakespear (D - Encinitas). 

This bill would create a manufacturer responsibility program for the safe and proper management of emergency distress flares. The bill would define “covered product” to include certain pyrotechnic devices that meet the criteria for household hazardous waste, as specified. The bill would require a manufacturer of a covered product, individually or through a manufacturer responsibility organization, to develop and implement a manufacturer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products, as specified. The bill would establish a process and timeline for DTSC to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a plan and for the implementation of an approved plan. The bill would require that an approved plan be published on DTSC’s internet website, except for specified manufacturer data that would not be open to public inspection. The bill would prohibit DTSC from adopting regulations to implement the act with an effective date earlier than July 1, 2029. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.         

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SB-615, Vehicle Traction Batteries. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles) . 

This bill would require a battery supplier, as defined, to be responsible for, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of a vehicle traction battery if it is removed from a vehicle that is still in service, as provided, or if the vehicle traction battery is offered or returned to its battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department, as provided. The bill would impose related duties on a secondary user, as defined, and a secondary handler, as defined, including, among other duties, ensuring the responsible end-of-life management for a vehicle traction battery or returning a vehicle traction battery to the battery supplier, and reporting information regarding the sale, transfer, or receipt of a vehicle traction battery or module to the department as provided. The bill would also require an auctioneer, as defined, and salvage disposal auction, as defined, to report similar information regarding a vehicle traction battery to the department. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.        

  • Current Status

    • Re-referred to Com. on APPR. on 04/22/25. Set for hearing on 05/05/2025.

 

SB-682, Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Senator Allen (D - Los Angeles). 

Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control, on or before January 1, 2029, to adopt regulations to enforce specified covered perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) restrictions, which include prohibitions on the distribution, sale, or offering for sale of certain products that contain specified levels of PFAS. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a covered product that contain intentionally added PFAS, as defined, except for previously used products and as otherwise preempted by federal law. The bill would define “covered product” to include cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, juvenile products, food packaging, and ski wax, as specified. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2040, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale certain products that contains intentionally added PFAS, including, but not limited to, refrigerants, solvents, propellants, and clean fire suppressants, as specified, unless the department has made a determination that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or the product is previously used. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

2024 Leg

2024 LEGISLATION

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AB-2, Recycling: solar photovoltaic modules. Assemblymember Ward (D-San Diego). SPONSORED BY CPSC. 

This bill would expand the definition of “covered electronic device” to include a “customer-owned solar PV module,” as defined, thereby expanding the scope of the act to include covered solar photovoltaic (PV) module products, for limited purposes, as provided. The bill would also require, on or before October 1, 2026, and on or before October 1 each year thereafter, CalRecycle to establish a covered solar PV recycling fee based on the reasonable regulatory costs to administer covered electronic waste recycling. The bill would require the charge to be imposed upon a consumer or a service provider serving the consumer for the purchase of a new or refurbished covered solar PV module product. The bill would also require the charge to be adjusted annually based on the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would create the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount as a continuously appropriated fund in the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account. Because the funds deposited to the Covered Solar PV Module Recycling Fee Subaccount would be a new source of funds in the continuously appropriated subaccount within the continuously appropriated Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account, the bill would make an appropriation. By expanding the scope of the act to make it applicable to covered solar PV module products, the bill would expand the scope of a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.

 

AB-1238, Hazardous waste: solar panels. Assemblymember Ward (D-San Diego). SPONSORED BY CPSC. 

This bill would require the department to develop alternative management standards for managing photovoltaic modules. The bill would specify parameters for the standards, including, but not limited to, that they promote the safe collection, reuse, and recycling of photovoltaic modules. The bill would require the department to hold at least one public workshop to discuss concepts for the standards with stakeholders before submitting an initial statement of reasons to the Office of Administrative Law. Because a violation of regulations adopted by the department under these provisions would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in the Senate Com. on RLS. on 07/03/24.

 

SB-707, Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024. Senator Newman (D-Fullerton). SPONSORED BY CPSC.

This bill would enact a stewardship program known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, which would require a producer of apparel, as defined, or textile articles, as defined, to form and join a producer responsibility organization or PRO. The bill would require the PRO to be approved by the department pursuant to the requirements of the bill, as provided. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the program no earlier than July 1, 2028. The bill would require the PRO to submit to the department, for approval or disapproval, a complete plan for the collection, transportation, repair, sorting, and recycling, and the safe and proper management, of apparel, as defined, and textile articles, as defined, in the state. Upon approval of a plan, or commencing July 1, 2030, whichever is earlier, the bill would make a producer subject to specified civil penalties, unless the producer is a participant of a PRO, and all apparel and textiles are accounted for in the plan. 

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SB-1280, Waste management: propane cylinders: reusable or refillable. Senator Laird (D-Santa Cruz). SPONSORED BY CPSC.

Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, establishes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and requires the department to adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out the act. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, prohibit the sale or offer for sale of propane cylinders other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable, as defined. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this bill with an effective date of January 1, 2028.

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SB-560, Solid waste: gas cylinders: stewardship program. Senator Laird (D-Santa Cruz). CPSC LEAD. 

This bill would establish a stewardship program for gas cylinder products, as defined, and would authorize producers of those products to establish one more producer stewardship organizations for that purpose. The bill would require each producer or producer stewardship organization to submit a gas cylinder stewardship plan to the department that details, among other things, convenient and accessible opportunities for the recovery of gas cylinders used by consumers. The bill would prohibit gas cylinder producers that are not participating in a department-approved stewardship plan from supplying, selling, or offering for sale gas cylinders in the state. The bill would impose recordkeeping and reporting requirements on producers and producer stewardship organizations with department-approved stewardship plans and would require those producers to pay all administrative and operational costs associated with establishing and implementing the stewardship plan in which it participates, including the cost of collection, transportation, recycling, and the safe and proper management of recovered gas cylinders. The bill would require the department to set, review, and revise necessary convenience and performance standards and ensure appropriate data metrics for the gas cylinder stewardship program.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in Senate Appropriations Committee on 01/18/24. â€‹â€‹

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AB-660, Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates. Assemblymember Irwin (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would instead require, on and after July 1, 2026, a food manufacturer, processor, or retailer responsible for the labeling of food items for human consumption that chooses, or is otherwise required by law, to display a date label to communicate a quality or safety date on a food item manufactured on or after July 1, 2026, to use one of the specified terms on the date label, as provided. The bill would prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item for human consumption manufactured on or after July 1, 2026, that displays a quality or safety date label that is not labeled in accordance with these terms. The bill would prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item for human consumption manufactured on or after July 1, 2026, that is labeled with the phrase “sell by,” as specified.

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AB-863, Carpet recycling: producer responsibility organizations: fines: succession: training. Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would establish a carpet producer responsibility program that would require producers of covered products to form and join a single producer responsibility organization (PRO) for the collection and recycling of a covered product. This bill would define a “covered product”, as carpet, as defined. The bill would require the PRO to develop a producer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, recycling, and the safe and proper management of covered products in the state. The bill would require the PRO to perform specified public outreach regarding the plan before submitting it to the department for approval. The bill would require the PRO to review the plan at least every 5 years after approval. The bill would also require the PRO to submit an annual report to the department. The bill would require all reports and records provided to the department to be provided under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would restrict public access to certain information collected for the purpose of administering this program.

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AB-1347, Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase. Assemblymember Ting (D-San Francisco). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, require a business, as defined, that accepts payment through cash, credit, or debit transactions, subject to certain exceptions, to provide a consumer with the option to receive or not receive a proof of purchase. On and after January 1, 2026, the bill would prohibit a business from printing a paper proof of purchase if the consumer opts to not receive a proof of purchase, unless otherwise required by state or federal law. The bill would also exempt a business from the requirement to provide the consumer with an option to not receive a proof of purchase if a consumer voluntarily opts in to receive a proof of purchase through the rules of an association, warehouse, or other club to which the consumer belongs. The bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2024, a paper proof of purchase provided to a consumer by a business from containing bisphenol A, and, on and after January 1, 2025, from containing any bisphenols. The bill would specify that a violation would be punishable by a civil penalty of $100 for each day the business is in violation, but not to exceed an annual total of $3,000. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, a county counsel, a district attorney, or a city attorney to enforce those provisions.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in the Senate Com. on APPR. on 08/16/24.

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AB-1659, Sale of small electronic devices: charging devices. Assembly Member Gabriel (D-Woodland Hills). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would prohibit a manufacturer from selling a small electronic device, as defined, for the first time, and first sold in California, on or after January 1, 2026, unless that small electronic device meets certain criteria, including being equipped with a USB Type-C receptacle, as specified. The bill would require a wholesaler or retailer of a small electronic device manufactured on or after January 1, 2026, to offer to make the sale without a charging device, and to display, as specified, certain information depending on the existence and specifications of an included charging device. The bill also would require the wholesaler or retailer to provide a specified purchaser with certain information relating to the wired charging devices that can be used with the small electronic device, as specified.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in the Senate Com. on APPR. on 08/16/24.

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AB-2201, Toxics: air care products. Assembly Member Addis (D-San Luis Obispo). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would prohibit, on and after July 1, 2026, a person from selling or distributing in commerce in this state an air care product, as defined, that contains certain specified chemical ingredients, except as provided. The bill would require a manufacturer of an air care product to prepare specified technical documentation or other information and would require the manufacturer to submit to the Department of Toxic Substances Control, upon request, that documentation or other information within 28 days after the date of the request. The bill would require a manufacturer to provide a specified certification to a person who sells or offers for sale that manufacturer’s air care product, upon the request of that person, or to display the certification prominently on the shipping container or on the packaging of the air care product. The bill would authorize a manufacturer to use the existing procedure established for the protection of information submitted to the department that is claimed to be a trade secret. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement and administer these provisions.

  • Current Status:

    • Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Addis on 05/30/24.

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AB 2214, Ocean Protection Council: microplastics. Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) and McKinnor (D- Inglewood). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would require, on or before March 1, 2025, the council to establish and lead an interagency coordination group, and would require the council, in coordination with the interagency coordination group, to identify and recommend to the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2025, statutory changes that are needed to implement the recommendations described in the Statewide Microplastics Strategy, as specified. The bill would require the council, in coordination with the interagency coordination group, to adopt a workplan, on or before December 31, 2025, outlining which participating agencies within the interagency coordination group will implement the recommendations. The bill would require the workplan to be provided to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.

  • Current Status:

    • VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR ON 09/22/24.

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AB 2236, Solid waste: recycled paper bags: standards: carryout bag prohibition. Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, recast the definition of a “single-use carryout bag” to a “carryout bag,” and would revise the definition to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale for the purpose of carrying purchased goods and that is not a recycled paper bag. The bill would create a carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified. The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception. The bill would also prohibit a store from providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, except as provided. The bill would also repeal the provisions relating to standards for and the certification of reusable grocery bags, and would repeal a provision relating to certain obsolete at-store recycling program requirements. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations and would make related conforming changes.

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AB 2445, Prescriptions: personal use pharmaceutical disposal system. Assembly Member Wallis (D-Riverside). CPSC OPPOSE. 

This bill would prohibit a dispenser from dispensing a prescription drug containing an opioid to a patient for outpatient use unless the dispenser also provides a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system, as defined, to the patient. The bill would provide that its provisions become operative only upon the Legislature enacting a framework for the governing of a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system program. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

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AB 2577, Organic waste: reduction regulations. Assembly Member Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks). CPSC SUPPORT.

Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve those targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, and include in those regulations, among other things, requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of is recovered for human consumption by 2025. This bill would require the department to include in those recovered edible food requirements, product labeling requirements that reduce food waste.

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AB 2761, Product safety: plastic packaging: Reducing Toxics in Packaging Act. Assembly Member Hart (D-Santa Barbara). CPSC SUPPORT. 

This bill would enact the Reducing Toxics in Packaging Act, which would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2026, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing in the state plastic packaging that contains certain chemicals, as specified. The bill would exclude from that prohibition packaging used for certain medical, drug, and federally regulated products. The bill would authorize the imposition of a civil penalty for a violation of that prohibition, as specified.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in the Senate Coms. on E.Q. on 06/19/24.

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AB 2762, Plastic waste: California Reusable Beverage Container Act. Assembly Member Friedman (D-Burbank). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would require, for certain beverage manufacturers, by January 1, 2031, that no less than 5% of the volume of beverages that a beverage manufacturer sells in beverage containers in California be sold in reusable beverage containers, and that by January 1, 2032, no less than 60% of that 5% be in reusable beverage containers that were returned for reuse. The bill would provide for periodic increases to those percentages. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2030, and annually thereafter, a beverage manufacturer to report certain information to the department regarding the sale of beverages in beverage containers and reusable beverage containers, as specified. The bill would require a beverage manufacturer to make those reports publicly available on the beverage manufacturer’s internet website. The bill would require, beginning in 2031, the department to aggregate the information provided by beverage manufacturers into an annual report, as specified. The bill would authorize one or more beverage manufacturers to form a reusable beverage container management system and to submit a plan to the department regarding their plan to comply with the requirements of this bill, as specified.

  • Current Status:

    • Died in the Assembly Com. on APPR. on 05/17/24.

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SB 903, Environmental health: product safety: perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Senator Skinner (D-Oakland). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would, beginning January 1, 2032, prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a product that contains intentionally added PFAS, as defined, unless the Department of Toxic Substances Control has made a determination that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use, the prohibition is preempted by federal law, or the product is previously used. The bill would specify the criteria and procedures for determining whether the use of PFAS in a product is a currently unavoidable use, for renewing that determination, and for revoking that determination. The bill would require the department to maintain on its internet website a list of each determination of currently unavoidable use, when each determination expires, and the products and uses that are exempt from the prohibition. The bill would impose an administrative penalty for a violation of the prohibition, as specified. The bill would establish the PFAS Penalty Account and require all administrative penalties received to be deposited into that account and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be used for the administration and enforcement of these provisions, as specified.

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SB 1053, Solid waste: recycled paper bags: standards: carryout bag prohibition. Senators Blakespear (D-Encinitas) and Allen (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, recast the definition of a “single-use carryout bag” to a “carryout bag,” and would revise the definition to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale for the purpose of carrying purchased goods and that is not a recycled paper bag. The bill would create a carryout bag exception to include a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, as specified. The bill would revise the definition of “recycled paper bag” to require it be made from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials on and after January 1, 2028, without exception. The bill would also prohibit a store from providing, distributing, or selling a carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, except as provided. The bill would also repeal the provisions relating to standards for and the certification of reusable grocery bags, and would repeal a provision relating to certain obsolete at-store recycling program requirements. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations and would make related conforming changes.

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SB 1066, Hazardous waste: marine flares: manufacturer responsibility. Senator Blakespear (D-Encinitas). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would create a manufacturer responsibility program for the safe and proper management of marine flares. The bill would define “covered product” to mean a pyrotechnic device that produces a brilliant light or a plume of colorful smoke as a visual distress signal, such as on a marine vessel, to attract attention and pinpoint a person’s location in an emergency. The bill would require a manufacturer of a covered product to develop and implement a manufacturer responsibility plan for the collection, transportation, and the safe and proper management of covered products, as specified. The bill would establish a process and timeline for DTSC to review and approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a plan and for the implementation of an approved plan. The bill would require that an approved plan be published on DTSC’s internet website, except for specified manufacturer data that would not be open to public inspection. The bill would prohibit DTSC from adopting regulations to implement the act with an effective date earlier than July 1, 2028.

 

SB 1143, Paint products: stewardship program. Senator Allen (D-Los Angeles). CPSC SUPPORT. 

This bill would revise and recast the architectural paint recovery program as the paint product recovery program. The bill would expand the scope of the stewardship program from architectural paint to paint products, and thereby subject paint products to the requirements of the program. The bill would define “paint product” to mean architectural coatings, aerosol coating products, nonindustrial coatings, and coating-related products, as provided. The bill would exempt aerosol coating products, coating-related products, and nonindustrial coatings added to the stewardship program by the bill from the requirements of the program until January 1, 2028, or the approved stewardship plan’s implementation date for those products, whichever occurs sooner, as specified. Among other changes, the bill would require a manufacturer, individually or through a stewardship organization, to review its plan at least every 5 years after approval by CalRecycle and determine whether amendments to the plan are necessary. The bill would rename the account for the deposit of fees the Paint Product Stewardship Account and would rename the subaccount for the deposit of civil penalties the Paint Product Stewardship Penalty Subaccount. The bill would make conforming changes.

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SB 1167, Solid waste: single-use drinking vessels. Senator Blakespear (D-Encinitas). CPSC SUPPORT.

This bill would require a chain restaurant, before serving a beverage, to ask a customer if the customer intends to consume the beverage on the premises or off the premises. The bill would prohibit a chain restaurant from serving a beverage in a single-use vessel if a customer indicates intent to consume the beverage on the premises, as specified, and would subject a violator to the enforcement provisions described above. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

  • Current Status: Died in the Senate Com. on E.Q. on 04/17/24.

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What is extended producer responsibility (EPR)?

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to place a shared responsibility for end-of-life product management on the producers, and all entities involved in the product chain, instead of the general public; while encouraging product design or redesign that minimizes the negative impacts on human health and the environment at every stage of the product's lifecycle. This allows the costs of processing and recycling or disposal to be incorporated into the total cost of a product. This also places primary responsibility on the producer, or brand owner, who ultimately makes design and marketing decisions for their products. It also creates a setting for recycled commodities markets to emerge, which helps support a true circular economy.

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