BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



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          Date of Hearing:   May 1, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                     AB 744 (Gordon) - As Amended:  April 1, 2013

          Policy Committee:                              Natural  
          ResourcesVote:9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill repeals an obsolete calculation and reporting  
          requirement in the California Beverage Container and Litter  
          Reduction Act (Bottle Bill).  Specifically, this bill:

          1)Deletes the provisions that require the establishment of  
            reporting periods and calculations for redemption rates for  
            beverage containers.  

          2)Deletes the definition of redemption rate and makes conforming  
            changes.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Potential minor  savings.

           COMMENTS

           1)According to the author, this bill removes obsolete  
            calculation and reporting requirements that the Department of  
            Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) is no longer  
            performing.  

          2)Background.   The requirement for calculating both recycling  
            and redemption rates for aluminum, glass, plastic, and other  
            container materials has been in statute since 1986.  Recycling  
            rates measure containers subject to the Bottle Bill, and  
            redemption rates include containers that are not subject to  
            the Bottle Bill.  

            The redemption rate was used in the early years of the program  








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            as a trigger for higher fees, but the trigger was removed in  
            1999.  The current recycling rate calculation is adequate to  
            determine the numbers and types of containers returned for  
            recycling.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jennifer Galehouse / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081