By Senator Blakespear

​

• Factsheet

• Status:

  • 8/29: Passed off the Senate Floor with a concurrence vote of 40-0 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• Sign on to NSAC's coalition Floor Alert here

• Press Release

• Zero Waste Sonoma Press Release

• 8/29/24 Press Release

• Will require the producer of pyrotechnic distress flares to fund and operate a collection system to manage expired or unwanted flares, shifting the costs of managing this product from our cities and counties - and ultimately local ratepayers - to the producers/users. 

By Senator Allen

​

• Factsheet

• Status:

  • 8/30: Passed off the Senate Floor with a concurrence vote of 36-3 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• Sign on to NSAC's coalition Floor Alert here

• Will expand the scope of the existing PaintCare program in CA to include covered paint products and would no longer limit the program to architectural paint and instead would include all paint including that used on boats, furniture paint, chaulkboard paint, etc.

• These changes would not take effect until 1/1/2027, or the approved stewardship plan’s implementation date for those products, whichever occurs sooner. 

​

By Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd

​

• Factsheet

• Summary of Amendments

• Status:

  • 8/31: Passed off the Assembly Floor with a concurrence vote of 55-9 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• Sign on to NSAC's coalition support letter here

• This bill will improve CA’s carpet recycling program’s governance to include CA stakeholders, sets recycled carpet to carpet standards, and increases penalties for non-compliance.

By Senators Allen and Min

​

• Status:

  • 8/31: Passed off the Senate Floor with a concurrence vote of 33-1 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• The bill would instead require all electric vehicle traction batteries, as defined, sold with motor vehicles in the state to be recovered and reused, repurposed, remanufactured, or recycled at the end of their useful life in a motor vehicle or any other application. The bill would also require a vehicle manufacturer, dealer, automobile dismantler, automotive repair dealer, and nonvehicle secondary user to be responsible for ensuring the responsible end-of-life management of an electric vehicle traction battery once it is removed from a vehicle or other application to which the electric vehicle traction battery has been used. The bill would include a related statement of legislative findings and declarations and a statement of policy regarding end-of-life management of electric vehicle traction batteries.

By Senator Newman

​

• Status:

  • 8/30: Passed off the Senate Floor with a concurrence vote of 32-8 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• This bill would enact the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023, which would require producers, either independently or through the creation of one or more stewardship organizations, to establish a stewardship program for the collection and recycling of a covered product. This bill would define a “covered product” to include any apparel, textile, or textile article that is unsuitable for reuse by a consumer in its current state or condition, as defined.

By Senator Laird

​​

• Status:

  • 8/29: Passed off the Senate Floor with a concurrence vote of 31-9 and now heads to the Governor's desk.

• This bill would, on and after an unspecified date, prohibit the sale or offer for sale of propane cylinders other than those propane cylinders that are reusable or refillable, as defined, and would make the violation of this provision subject to specified civil penalties.