BILL NUMBER: AB 1001	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gordon

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 14515.5 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to beverage containers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1001, as introduced, Gordon. Beverage containers: plastic.
   The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction
Act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to
calculate a processing fee and a processing payment for each beverage
container with a specified scrap value, to be paid by beverage
manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a
distributor or dealer. Existing law specifies procedures for the
reduction of the processing fee for PET containers, as defined.
Existing law also requires all rigid plastic bottles and rigid
plastic containers to be labeled with a code which indicates the
resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic
container.
   This bill would revise the definition of the term "PET container"
for purposes of the act to include a plastic beverage container
labeled with the term "PETE."
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 14515.5 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14515.5.  "PET container" means a plastic beverage container
labeled with a "1"  or with "PETE" for polyethylene terephthalate
resin,  pursuant to Section 18015 and subject to this division.