BILL NUMBER: AB 1103	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 19, 2015

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 amended, 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   includes,
but is not limited to,  food soiled napkins, towels, egg
cartons, pizza boxes, waxed  or unwaxed  cardboard 
containers, and uncoated plates and cups.   or paper
food and beverage containers or wrappers, paper bags, coffee filters,
tea bags, and plates and cups that do not have a plastic coating.

   (d) "Food waste" means discarded  putrescible  solid,
semisolid, and liquid food,  including  
including, but not limited to,  fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat,
bones, poultry, seafood, bread, rice, pasta,  and oils;
coffee filters and tea bags; cut flowers and herbs;  
oils, and herbs,  and any  other  putrescible matter
produced from human  or animal  food 
production, preparation, and consumption   production
and preparation  activities. Food waste includes food-soiled
paper.  Food waste does not include materials required to be
handled pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 19200) of Part
3 of Division 9 of the Food and Agricultural Code. 
   (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.
   (f) "Organic waste generator" means a business subject to
subdivision (a) of Section 42649.81.
   (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.
   (h) "Rural county" means a county that has a total population of
less than 70,000 persons.
   (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.