BILL NUMBER: AB 1178	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 42231 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take
effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1178, as introduced, Ma. Solid waste: compost market program.
   Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of
1989, establishes a compost market program to increase the use of
compost products, including requiring the Department of General
Services and Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to
maintain specifications for the purchase of compost by the state and
requiring the Department of Transportation to use compost in place
of, or to supplement, petroleum-based commercial fertilizers in the
state's highway landscape maintenance program. The term compost is
defined, for purposes of this program, as the product resulting from
the controlled biological decomposition of organic wastes that are
source separated from the municipal solid waste stream.
   This bill would specify that these organic wastes include, but are
not limited to, vegetable, yard, and wood wastes that are not
hazardous waste.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 42231 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   42231.  "Compost" means the product resulting from the controlled
biological decomposition of organic wastes  , including, but not
limited to, vegetable, yard, and wood wastes that are not hazardous
waste, and  that are  sources   source
 separated from the municipal solid waste stream.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to encourage the use of sustainable compost as soon as
possible, thereby protecting public health and safety and the
environment, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.