Bill Text: CA AB2467 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Assembly Bill 2467 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-26 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2467 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2467-Enrolled.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2467	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2014
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nestande

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 14549.2 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to recycling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2467, Nestande. California Beverage Container Recycling and
Litter Reduction Act: market development payments.
   Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and
Litter Reduction Act, requires a distributor to pay a redemption
payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the
state to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for
deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The
department, until January 1, 2017, is authorized to annually expend
up to $10,000,000 from the fund to make market development payments
to an entity certified by the department as a recycling center,
processor, or dropoff or collection program for empty plastic
beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into
flake, pellet, or other form, and made usable for the manufacture of
a plastic product, or to a product manufacturer for empty plastic
beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into
flake, pellet, or other form, and used by that product manufacturer
to manufacture a product.
   This bill would authorize the department to pay a market
development payment to both certified entities and product
manufacturers for empty plastic beverage containers.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14549.2 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14549.2.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
   (1) "Certified entity" means a recycling center, processor, or
dropoff or collection program certified by the department pursuant to
this division.
   (2) "Product manufacturer" means a person who manufactures a
plastic product in this state.
   (b) In order to develop California markets for empty plastic
beverage containers collected for recycling in the state, the
department may, consistent with Section 14581 and subject to the
availability of funds, pay a market development payment to both
certified entities and product manufacturers for empty plastic
beverage containers collected and managed pursuant to this section.
   (c) The department shall make a market development payment to a
certified entity or product manufacturer in accordance with this
section, only if the plastic beverage container is collected and
either recycled or used in manufacturing, in the state, as follows:
   (1) The department shall make a market development payment to a
certified entity for empty plastic beverage containers that are
collected for recycling in the state, that are subsequently washed
and processed by a certified entity into a flake, pellet, or other
form in the state, and made usable for the manufacture of a plastic
product by a product manufacturer.
   (2) The department shall make a market development payment to a
product manufacturer for empty plastic beverage containers that are
collected for recycling in the state, that are subsequently washed
and processed into a flake, pellet or other form in the state, and
used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a product in this
state.
   (3) The department shall determine the amount of the market
development payment, which may be set at a different level for a
certified entity and a product manufacturer, but shall not exceed one
hundred fifty dollars ($150) per ton. In setting the amount of the
market development payment for both certified entities and product
manufacturers, the department shall consider all of the following:
   (A) The minimum funding level needed to encourage the in-state
washing and processing of empty plastic beverage containers collected
for recycling in this state.
   (B) The minimum funding level needed to encourage the in-state
manufacturing that utilizes empty plastic beverage containers
collected for recycling in this state.
   (C) The total amount of funds projected to be available for
plastic market development payments and the desire to maintain the
minimum funding level needed throughout the year.
   (4) The department may make a market development payment to both a
certified entity and a product manufacturer for the same empty
plastic beverage container.
   (d) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2017, deletes or extends
that date.