BILL NUMBER: AB 900 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 10, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 26, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Swanson
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
An act to add Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 32377) to
Chapter 3 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code,
relating to public school campuses.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 900, as amended, Swanson. Public school campuses: recycling and
composting bins.
(1) Existing law requires the Integrated Waste Management
Board Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
to develop and implement a source reduction and recycling
program for school districts that is designed to assist school
districts in establishing and implementing source reduction and
recycling programs and to complement and further prescribed
educational goals and the integrated waste management issues
addressed within the science curriculum framework developed by the
State Board of Education.
Existing law authorizes and encourages school districts to
establish and maintain a paper recycling program in all classrooms,
administrative offices, and other areas owned or leased by the school
district where a significant quantity of wastepaper is generated or
collected. The Integrated Waste Management Board
department , in conjunction with the State Department of
Education, is required to coordinate the implementation of this
program by providing materials, technical assistance, and other
resources that it deems necessary to aid and encourage educational
agencies to establish paper recycling programs.
This bill would require, commencing with the 2012-13
school year, allow a school district to provide
recycling and composting bins on the campus of each public elementary
and secondary school. The bill would require that each
allow a school district to determine
the number of bins to be located on a campus on the basis of the size
of both the pupil population and the surface area of that campus.
Because this bill would impose new duties on school districts, it
would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes
no . State-mandated local program: yes
no .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 32377) is added to
Chapter 3 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code,
to read:
Article 8.5. Recycling and Composting Bins
32377. (a) Commencing with the 2012-13 school year, a school
district shall
32377. (a) A school district
may provide the following bins on each elementary and
secondary school campus:
(1) Recycling.
(2) Composting, to the extent feasible, including, but not limited
to, the extent to which a collection service is available in the
geographical area of the school, or if a school is able to maintain a
school garden or vermicompost.
(b) Each school district shall A
school district may determine the number of bins to be
located on a campus on the basis of the size of both the pupil
population and the surface area of that campus.
SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.