BILL NUMBER: AB 1966	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Patterson

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 25214.11 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hazardous waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1966, as introduced, Patterson. Hazardous waste: toxics:
packaging.
   The Toxics in Packaging Prevention Act generally prohibits a
manufacturer or supplier from offering for sale or for promotional
purposes in this state a package or packaging component that includes
intentionally introduced lead, mercury, cadmium, or hexavalent
chromium in the package or in a packaging component. Existing law
makes a statement of legislative findings and declarations regarding
the act.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that
statement.
   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 25214.11 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   25214.11.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) The management of solid waste can pose a wide range of hazards
to public health and safety and to the environment.
   (2) Packaging comprises a significant percentage of the overall
solid waste stream.
   (3) The presence of heavy metals in packaging is a part of the
total concern regarding the disposal of hazardous constituents in the
solid waste stream, in light of the presence of heavy metals in
emissions or ash when packaging is incinerated, or in leachate when
packaging is disposed of in a solid waste landfill.
   (4) Lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium, on the basis
of available scientific and medical evidence, are of particular
concern.
   (5) It is desirable, as a first step in reducing the toxicity of
packaging  waste,   waste  and reducing the
hazardous materials that may be disposed of in solid waste
landfills, to eliminate the addition of these heavy metals to
packaging.
   (6) The intent of this article is to achieve this reduction in
toxicity without impeding or discouraging the expanded use of
recycled materials in the production of packaging and its components.

   (b) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the "Toxics
in Packaging Prevention Act."