BILL NUMBER: AB 1142	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bloom

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1142, as introduced, Bloom. 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 to the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery (CalRecycle) in a specified manner. CalRecycle is required
to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container
Recycling Fund, which is continuously appropriated to CalRecycle to
implement the act.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provision regarding the redemption payment.
   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 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
  submitted  not later than the last day of the
month following the sale. The distributor shall  make
  submit  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  
submit  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   submit  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.