BILL NUMBER: AB 2039	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ting

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2039, as introduced, Ting. Solid waste: reduction.
   The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is
administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
requires each city and county, and each regional agency formed
pursuant to the act, to develop a source reduction and recycling
element of an integrated waste management plan to divert 50% of all
solid waste, through source reduction, recycling, and composting
activities. Existing law makes a legislative declaration that it is
the policy goal of the state that not less than 75% of solid waste
generated be source reduced, recycled, or composted by 2020, but
prohibits the department from establishing or enforcing a diversion
rate on a city or county that is greater than the 50% diversion rate.

   This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature
to reduce waste in the state.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce waste in
the state.