BILL NUMBER: AB 712	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 11, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Simitian
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 14583 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to recycling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 712, as amended, Williams. Recycling: beverage containers.
   The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction
Act requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for each
beverage container sold or offered for sale to the Department of
Resources Recycling and Recovery. The act requires the Division of
Recycling in the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
subject to the availability of funds, to expend specified moneys set
aside in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, for
specified purposes relating to the recycling of beverage containers.
   This bill would, notwithstanding the above expenditure
requirement, prohibit the department  , on and after July 1,
2012,  from making any payments, grants, or loans, as provided,
to a city, county, or city and county, if the city, county, or city
and county has adopted or is enforcing a land-use restriction that
prevents the siting or operation of a certified recycling center at a
supermarket site, as defined, as may be required pursuant to a
specified law.
   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 14583 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   14583.  Notwithstanding Section 14581,  on and after July 1,
2012,  the department shall not make any payments, grants, or
loans, as provided in that section, to a city, county, or city and
county, if the city, county, or city and county has adopted or is
enforcing a land use restriction that prevents the siting or
operation of a certified recycling center at a supermarket site, as
defined in Section 14526.6, as may be required pursuant to Section
14571.