Bill Text: CA SB1175 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: waivers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1175 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1175
| Introduced by Senator Ochoa Bogh (Coauthor: Senator Dahle) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey) |
February 14, 2024 |
An act to add Section 42652.9 to the Public Resources Code, relating to organic waste.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1175, as amended, Ochoa Bogh.
Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: waivers.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025.
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 that may include, among other things, different levels of requirements for local jurisdictions and phased timelines based upon their progress in meeting the organic waste reduction goals, and penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance. The department’s regulations authorize low-population and elevation
waivers for a local jurisdiction jurisdiction, based on, among other things, a consideration of the jurisdiction’s census tracts, that exempt the jurisdiction from all or some of the department’s organic waste collection requirements.
This bill would require the department to revise the regulations to require the department to consider, in addition to census tracts, alternatives to those census tracts, as provided, when deciding the geographic boundaries of a low-population or elevation waiver.
waiver, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department from considering those alternatives when deciding the boundaries for those waivers until it adopts the revised regulations.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 42652.9 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:42652.9.
(a)
(1) Boundaries submitted by counties, cities, or other public agencies.
(b)
(2) Boundaries of incorporated cities.
(c)
(3) Boundaries of census-designated places.
(b) The department shall not consider the alternatives to census tracts when it reviews and evaluates a waiver application, as described in subdivision (a), until it adopts revised regulations pursuant to subdivision (a).
