Allen
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 enact the Ocean Pollution Reduction Act of 2017. The bill would prohibit a food vendor, as defined, that is subject to specified federal requirements for the posting of calories and nutrients imposed upon restaurants and other retail food establishments, on and after January 1, 2020, from dispensing prepared food to a customer in an expanded polystyrene food service container. The bill would prohibit all food vendors from dispensing prepared food to a customer in an expanded polystyrene food service container on and after January 1, 2022. The bill would authorize a city or county to grant a food vendor an exemption from these prohibitions, as specified, upon request of the food vendor, if the food vendor demonstrates to the satisfaction of the city or county that compliance with the prohibition would impose an undue economic hardship, as defined. The bill would authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state to impose civil liability on a person or entity that knowingly violates that prohibition, or reasonably should have known that it was violating that prohibition, in the amount of $1,000 per day for the first violation, $2,000 per day for the 2nd violation, and $5,000 per day for the 3rd and subsequent violations. The bill would require any civil penalties collected to be paid to the office that brought the action and would authorize these penalties, if collected by the Attorney General, to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to enforce that prohibition. The bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to develop an Internet Web page with information on how to comply with, and how to file a complaint for a violation of, that prohibition. The act would also define related terms.
Senate rules suspended to allow bill to be taken up out of order.
Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 16. Page 4127.)
(Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 4122.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From inactive file on motion of Senator Allen.
Ordered to second reading.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Allen.
Motion to reconsider made by Senator Allen.
Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1353.)
Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 15. Noes 19. Page 1353.)
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
Published May 26 at 9 p.m.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1189.) (May 25).
Set for hearing May 25.
May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Set for hearing May 15.
May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
Set for hearing May 8.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 785.) (April 19).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on EQ.
Set for hearing April 19.
April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 5.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB705 | HTML |
| 02/17/17 - Introduced | |
| 04/05/17 - Amended Senate | |
| 04/26/17 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/26/17 - Amended Senate |
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