Bill Text: CA AB1579 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California Environmental Quality Act: vehicle-miles-traveled database.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1579 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1579-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 03, 2017 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1579 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Daly |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resource Recovery and Recycling, is established to promote beverage container recycling, and provides for the payment, collection, and distribution of certain payments and fees based on minimum refund values established for beverage containers. Existing law defines the term “beverage” for these purposes to include certain types of products in liquid, ready-to-drink form, as specified.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision defining “beverage.”
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 21159.10 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:21159.10.
The Office of Planning and Research shall establish and maintain a vehicle-miles-traveled database containing, but not limited to, methodological guidance on which models should be used for particular types of projects and the best sources of trip-length data for various land-use types.(a)Except as provided in subdivision (b), “beverage” means any of the following products if those products are in liquid, ready-to-drink form, and are intended for human consumption:
(1)Beer and other malt beverages.
(2)Wine and distilled spirit coolers.
(3)Carbonated water, including soda and carbonated mineral water.
(4)Noncarbonated water, including noncarbonated mineral water.
(5)Carbonated soft drinks.
(6)Noncarbonated soft drinks and “sport” drinks.
(7)Except as provided in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b), noncarbonated fruit drinks that contain any percentage of fruit juice.
(8)Coffee and tea drinks.
(9)Carbonated fruit drinks.
(10)Vegetable juice in beverage containers of 16 ounces or less.
(b)“Beverage” does not include any of the following:
(1) A product sold in a container that is not an aluminum beverage
container, a glass container, a plastic beverage container, or a bimetal container.
(2)Wine, or wine from which alcohol has been removed, in whole or in part, whether or not sparkling or carbonated.
(3)Milk, medical food, or infant formula.
(4)One hundred percent fruit juice in containers that are 46 ounces or more in volume.
(c)For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1)“Infant formula” means a liquid food described or sold as an alternative for human milk for
the feeding of infants.
(2)(A)“Medical food” means a food or beverage that is formulated to be consumed, or administered enterally under the supervision of a physician, and that is intended for specific dietary management of diseases or health conditions for which distinctive nutritional requirements, based on recognized scientific principles, are established by medical evaluation.
(B)A “medical food” is a specially formulated and processed product, for the partial or exclusive feeding of a patient by means of oral intake or enteral feeding by tube, and is not a naturally occurring foodstuff used in its natural state.
(C)“Medical food” includes any product that meets the definition of “medical food” in the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Sec. 360ee (b)(3).
(3)“Noncarbonated soft drink” means a nonalcoholic, noncarbonated naturally or artificially flavored water containing sugar or sweetener or trace amounts of various elements from both natural and synthetic sources.