Lowenthal
Author
Existing law requires all rigid plastic bottles and rigid plastic containers sold in the state to be labeled with a code that indicates the resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic container. The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, requires every rigid plastic packaging container, as defined, sold or offered for sale in this state to generally meet one of specified criteria. This bill would prohibit a food vendor, on and after January 1, 2016, from dispensing prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container and would define related terms. The bill would provide that a food vendor that is a school district is not required to comply with the bill's requirements until July 1, 2017, and would allow a food vendor that is a school district to dispense prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container after that date if the governing board of the school district elects to adopt a policy to implement a verifiable recycling program for polystyrene foam food containers, which would be renewable, as specified. The bill would also allow a food vendor to dispense prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container after January 1, 2016, in a city or county if the city or county elects to adopt an ordinance establishing a specified recycling program for polystyrene foam food containers, which would be operative, as specified. The bill would allow a food vendor to dispense prepared food to a customer in a polystyrene foam food container in a city or county if that food vendor demonstrates to the satisfaction of the city or county that compliance with the requirements of the bill would impose an undue economic hardship, as defined. The bill would authorize a city or county to exempt the food vendor until January 1, 2017, or for a period of not more than one year from the date of the demonstration, and would allow a food vendor to reapply for additional one-year exemptions from the bill's requirements.
From Assembly without further action.
Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 26. Noes 45. Page 6746.)
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. (Page 6251.)
From inactive file.
Ordered to third reading.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Charles Calderon.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Allen.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (August 25).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (June 27).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 15. Page 1265.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Ordered to second reading.
Read third time and amended.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 543.) (April 4).
Set for hearing April 4.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB568 | HTML |
| 02/17/11 - Introduced | |
| 04/14/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/23/11 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/15/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 07/12/11 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/24/12 - Amended Assembly |
| Document | Format |
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| No related documents. |
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