Bill Text: CA SB303 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Solid waste: Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Veto sustained. [SB303 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB303-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 303

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Introduced by Senator Allen

February 02, 2023

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An act relating to solid waste.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 303, as introduced, Allen. Solid waste: Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.

Existing law establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce plastic covered material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable, and to ensure that plastic covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates.

This bill would state the Legislature’s intent to enact future legislation relating to the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation relating to the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act.