2023 LEGISLATION
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CALIFORNIA SENATE
SB 244 (Eggman) Right to Repair
Status: Signed by the Governor
Requires manufacturers of consumer electronics to provide replacement parts, diagnostic information, and service literature to consumers and third-party repair businesses.
SB 353 (Dodd) Bottle Bill Expansion
Status: Signed by the Governor
Expands the Bottle Bill to include juice containers 46 oz and larger and fixes a flaw in the payment formula that funds recycling centers.
SB 615 (Allen) Electric Vehicle Battery Producer Responsibility
Status: 2-year bill. Not heard by Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee.
Will create a manufacturer-funded collection and recycling system for EV batteries at the end of their useful life.
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY
AB 660 (Irwin) Date Label Reform
Status: 2-year bill. Was not heard by Senate Agriculture Committee.
Requires food manufacturers to use uniform terminology when labeling their products with "safety" or "quality" dates, and bans the use of consumer-facing "sell-by" dates.
AB 891 (Irwin) Non-Petroleum Content in Plastic Bottles
Status: Dead. Held by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Establishes a non-binding policy goal to support the use non-petroleum materials in plastic beverage containers.
AB 1290 (Rivas) Eliminating Problematic Plastics
Status: Dead. Not brought up for a vote in the Assembly prior to the house of origin deadline.
Eliminates several of the most problematic forms of plastics that contaminate recycling or pose a risk to human health, by prohibiting the use of PVC, PVDC, PET-G, or pigmented PET packaging, as well as prohibiting the addition of PFAS, carbon black, and oxo-degradable additives in plastic packaging.
Status: Dead. Held by Senate Appropriations Committee.
Requires businesses subject to the Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 to provide customers the choice between receipt or no receipt by 2026, prohibits the use of bisphenol A in receipts by 2024, and prohibits the use of all bisphenols by 2025.
AB 1534 (Irwin) Landfill Methane Emissions
Status: Dead. Held by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Requires the California Air Resources Board to incorporate remote sensing technologies, such as satellites, airplane flyovers, and drones, into their landfill regulations.
AB 1705 (McKinnor) Moratorium on Incinerators
Status: Dead. Not brought up for a vote in the Assembly Appropriations Committee prior to the deadline.
Institutes a moratorium on the establishment and expansion of transformation and EMSW facilities until specific recycling and organic waste goals have been met for three consecutive years.