BILL NUMBER: AB 1103	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dodd

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 42649.8 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1103, as introduced, Dodd. Solid waste: organic waste.
   Existing law, on and after April 1, 2016, requires a business that
generates a certain amount of organic waste to arrange for recycling
services specifically for organic waste, and requires each city,
county, or regional agency approved by the Department of Resources
Recycling and Recovery to implement an organic waste recycling
program designed to divert organic waste generated by those
businesses, except as specified. Existing law defines the term
"organic waste" for purposes of those provisions to include food
waste and food-soiled paper waste.
   This bill would also define the terms "food-soiled paper" and
"food waste" for purposes of those provisions.
   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 42649.8 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   42649.8.  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall
apply:
   (a) "Business" means a commercial or public entity, including, but
not limited to, a firm, partnership, proprietorship, joint stock
company, corporation, or association that is organized as a
for-profit or nonprofit entity, or a multifamily residential
dwelling.
   (b) "Commercial waste generator" means a business subject to
subdivision (a) of Section 42649.2. 
   (c) "Food-soiled paper" includes food soiled napkins, towels, egg
cartons, pizza boxes, waxed cardboard containers, and uncoated plates
and cups.  
   (d) "Food waste" means discarded solid, semisolid, and liquid
food, including fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat, bones, poultry,
seafood, bread, rice, pasta, and oils; coffee filters and tea bags;
cut flowers and herbs; and any putrescible matter produced from human
or animal food production, preparation, and consumption activities.
Food waste includes food-soiled paper.  
   (c) 
    (e)  "Organic waste" means food waste, green waste,
landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and food-soiled
paper waste that is mixed in with food waste. 
   (d) 
    (f)  "Organic waste generator" means a business subject
to subdivision (a) of Section 42649.81. 
   (e) 
    (g)  "Rural jurisdiction" means a jurisdiction that is
located entirely within one or more rural counties, or a regional
agency comprised of jurisdictions that are located within one or more
rural counties. 
   (f) 
    (h)  "Rural county" means a county that has a total
population of less than 70,000 persons. 
   (g) 
    (i)  "Self-hauler" means a business that hauls its own
waste rather than contracting for that service and "self-haul" means
to act as a self-hauler.