BILL NUMBER: AB 1447	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Low

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to  amend Section 40003 of   add
Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 18050) to Division 12.7 to 
the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1447, as amended, Low. Solid waste:  beverage
containers.   PET food and beverage packaging. 
    The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is
administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
generally regulates the management and recycling of solid waste.
 The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter
Reduction Act requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for
every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to the
department. Existing law provides that nothing in the waste act
affects the duties of the department under the beverage act.
  Existing law requires all rigid plastic bottles and
rigid plastic containers, including bottles and containers composed
of polyethylene terephthalate, sold in California on and after
January 1, 1992, to be labeled   with a code which indicates
the resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic
container.  
   This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2017, and
annually thereafter, a California manufacturer of containers
primarily composed of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and used for
food or beverages to report to the department, in a manner determined
by the department, certain information, including the total amount
of tons of new PET plastic packaging made for sale by that
manufacturer.  
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Chapter 3 (commencing with Section
18050) is added to Division 12.7 of the   Public Resources
Code   , to read:  
      CHAPTER 3.  PET FOOD PLASTIC PACKAGING


   18050.  For purposes of this chapter, "PET plastic packaging"
means packaging consisting primarily of polyethylene terephthalate
(PET) and used to contain food or beverages.
   18052.  On and after January 1, 2017, and annually thereafter,
every manufacturer of PET plastic packaging in the state shall report
to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in a manner
determined by the department, both of the following:
   (a) The total amount of tons of new PET plastic packaging made for
sale by that manufacturer.
   (b) The total amount of postfilled PET plastic used in the
manufacturing of that packaging.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 40003 of the Public
Resources Code is amended to read:
   40003.  Nothing in this division abrogates, limits, or otherwise
affects the duties of the department under the California Beverage
Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act (Division 12.1
(commencing with Section 14500)).