BILL NUMBER: AB 665	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   An act to amend Section 14574 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to beverage containers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 665, as introduced, Alejo. Beverage containers: redemption
payments.
   Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and
Litter Reduction Act, requires a beverage container distributor to
pay a redemption payment no later than the last day of the month
following the sale of the beverage container. Existing law requires
the payment to be made to the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery (CalRecycle), which is required to deposit those amounts in
the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Under existing law,
the money in the fund is continuously appropriated to CalRecycle.
   This bill would extend the date by which a distributor is required
to pay the redemption payment to CalRecycle to 60 days following the
sale.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14574 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14574.  (a) (1) A distributor of beverage containers shall pay to
the department the redemption payment for every beverage container,
other than a refillable beverage container, sold or transferred to a
dealer, less 1.5 percent for the distributor's administrative costs.
   (2) The payment made by a distributor shall be made not later than
 the last day of the month   60 days 
following the sale. The distributor shall make the payment in the
form and manner that the department prescribes.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if a distributor displays
a pattern of operation in compliance with this division and the
regulations adopted pursuant to this division, to the satisfaction of
the department, the distributor may make a single annual payment of
redemption payments, if the distributor's projected redemption
payment for a calendar year totals less than seventy-five thousand
dollars ($75,000).
   (2) An annual redemption payment made pursuant to this subdivision
is due and payable on or before February 1 for every beverage
container sold or transferred by the distributor to a dealer in the
previous calendar year.
   (3) A distributor shall notify the department of its intent to
make an annual redemption payment pursuant to this subdivision on or
before January 31 of the calendar year for which the payment will be
due. 
   (c) This section shall become effective on July 1, 2012.