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Federal

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

State
CA

California

AB 863 (Aguiar-Curry): Carpet Recycling - NSAC SPONSORED
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By Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry and Senator Dodd

  • Factsheet

  • Status:

    • Passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on 7/5 with a 5-1 vote with 1 vote not recorded. Will be heard next in the Senate Appropriations Committee

  • Sign on to NSAC's coalition support letter here

  • This bill would increase those penalty amounts to $10,000 per day or $50,000 per day, respectively. The bill would make a carpet stewardship organization that violates a provision of the carpet stewardship law 3 times ineligible to act as an agent on behalf of manufacturers to design, submit, and administer a carpet stewardship plan and would apply, in that event, the successorship process.

AB 2 (Ward): Solar Photovoltaic Module Recycling (Two-year bill) - SUPPORT IN CONCEPT 
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By Assemblymember Ward

  • Status:

    • 9/1/23: In (Senate Appropriations) committee: Held under submission.

  • This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would create a convenient, safe, and environmentally sound system for the end-of-life management of photovoltaic modules, minimization of hazardous waste, and recovery of commercially valuable materials.

AB 246 (Papan): Eliminating PFAS from Menstrual Products - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymembers Papan and Schiavo

  • Status:

    • 9/7: Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15.)

  • This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to eliminate PFAS from menstrual products.

AB 418 (Gabriel): Food product safety - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymembers Gabriel and Wicks

  • Status:

    • 9/5/23: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  • This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would prohibit a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale, in commerce a food product that contains any specified substance, including, among others, brominated vegetable oil and red dye 3.

AB 496 (Friedman): Cosmetics Safety - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymembers Friedman and Lee

  • Status:

    • 9/6/23: In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

  • Existing law, commencing January 1, 2025, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in commerce any cosmetic product that contains any of several specified intentionally added ingredients except under specified circumstances.

  • This bill would expand that prohibition by adding specified banned ingredients.

AB 660 (Irwin): Streamlining Expiration Dates - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymember Irwin

  • Status:

    • Passed out of the Senate Health Committee on 6/21 with a 9-0 vote with 3 votes not recorded. Will be heard next in the Senate Agriculture Committee

  • This bill would instead require the Department of Food and Agriculture to, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, before January 1, 2025, publish information to assist food manufacturers, processors, and retailers responsible for the labeling of food products to use specified terms on food product labels to communicate quality dates and safety dates, as provided. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item that is not labeled in accordance with these terms. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item that is labeled with the phrase “sell by,” as specified.

AB 727 (Weber): Cleaning Products Safety - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymember Weber

  • Status:

    • 9/8/23: Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  • This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in the state a cleaning product that contains regulated PFAS, as specified.

AB 1290 (L. Rivas): Product safety: plastic packaging: substances - SUPPORT
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By Assemblymember Luz Rivas

  • Status:

    • Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Luz Rivas.

  • This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2026, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing in the state, (1) opaque or pigmented polyethylene terephthalate plastic bottles, and (2) plastic packaging that contains certain chemicals, pigments, or additives, as specified.

AB 1526:  Solid waste: plastic pollution: architectural paint - SUPPORT
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By Committee on Natural Resources (Assembly Members Luz Rivas (Chair), Addis, Friedman, Mathis, Muratsuchi, Pellerin, Ward, Wood, and Zbur)

  • Status:

    • 9/8/23: Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  • This bill would, among other things, eliminate the exemption from the program of aerosol spray paint and would provide that architectural paint includes aerosol coating products, as defined. The bill would specify that aerosol coating products shall not be regulated under the program until the implementation date of a plan or plan amendment concerning aerosol coating products approved by the department or January 1, 2027, whichever occurs sooner, and would authorize the department to extend that implementation date. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, a manufacturer or stewardship organization to submit an architectural paint stewardship plan or amendment to an approved architectural paint stewardship plan to the department. The bill would change the due date for the annual report to on or before May 15 of each year, would require certain information included in the annual report to be reported based on calendar year, and, commencing with the 2028 report, would require the annual report to include certain information on aerosol coating products. The bill would authorize the department, in coordination with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to adopt regulations to clarify and implement the architectural paint recovery program.

AB 1628 (McKinnor): Microfiber filtration - SUPPORT
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By  Assemblymembers McKinnor and Bauer-Kahan

  • Status:

    • 9/8/23: Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  • This bill would require, on and after January 1, 2029, all new washing machines sold for residential, commercial, and state use in California contain a microfiber filtration system with an unspecified filtration rate or an unspecified mesh size. The bill would also include legislative findings and declarations.

SB 244 (Eggman): Right to Repair - SUPPORT
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By Senators Eggman, Dodd, Skinner, and Assemblymember Haney

  • Status:

    • 9/7/23: Ordered to third reading.

  • This bill would enact the Right to Repair Act. The bill would require, regardless of whether any express warranty is made, the manufacturer of an above-described electronic or appliance product, in the above-described circumstances, and in those same circumstances but sold to others outside of direct retail sales, to make available, on fair and reasonable terms, to product owners, service and repair facilities, and service dealers, the means, as described, to effect the diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of the product, as provided. The bill would also require a service and repair facility or service dealer that is not an authorized facility or dealer of a manufacturer to provide a written notice containing specified information related to warranties to any customer seeking repair of an electronic or appliance product before the repair facility or service dealer repairs the product. The bill would also authorize a city, a county, a city and county, or the state to bring an action in superior court to impose civil penalties on a person or entity for violating the Right to Repair Act, as provided.

SB 615 (Allen): Electric vehicle traction batteries (Two-year bill) - SUPPORT
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By Senators Allen and Min

  • Status:

    • Passed off of the Senate Floor Committee on 5/25 with a 40-0 vote. Will be heard next in the Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee.

  • 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.

SB 622 (Allen): Cannabis regulation: plant identification program - SUPPORT
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By Senator Allen

  • Status:

    • 9/6/23: Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  • Sign onto NSAC's coalition letter of support

  • Existing law requires the Department of Cannabis Control to implement a unique identification program for cannabis and cannabis products and requires the program to include the identification of permitted cannabis plants at a cultivation site during the cultivation period. Existing law requires a unique identifier to be issued for each cannabis plant and to be attached at the base of each plant or as otherwise required by law or regulation. This bill would instead require the unique identifier to be attached to each plant as required by regulation.

SB 665 (Allen): Plastic waste: single-use plastics alternatives: working group - SUPPORT
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By Senator Allen

  • Status:

    • 9/7/23: Ordered to third reading.

  • Sign onto NSAC's coalition letter of support

  • This bill would require the California Environmental Protection Agency, by January 1, 2025, to establish a working group of the above-referenced state agencies to establish a framework for evaluating novel material types as they are developed to inform state policy decisions, as provided. The bill would require the working group to, among other things, develop recommendations related to novel material types, including the appropriate marketing of the material, the handling of the material at the end of its useful life, and how the material needs to be treated in relation to existing state policies, rules, and regulations.

SB 676 (Allen): Local ordinances and regulations: drought-tolerant landscaping. - SUPPORT
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By Senator Allen

  • Status:

    • 7/13/23: Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  • Sign onto NSAC's coalition letter of support

  • This bill would instead prohibit a city, including a charter city, county, or city and county from enacting or enforcing any ordinance or regulation that prohibits the installation of drought-tolerant landscaping using living plant material on residential property. The bill would specify that drought-tolerant landscaping does not include the installation of synthetic grass or artificial turf.

SB 707 (Newman): Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2023 (Two-year bill) - SUPPORT
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By Senators Newman, Skinner, and Wiener

  • Status:

    • July 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  • 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.

CO

Colorado

HB 23-1161 (Kipp): Environmental Standards For Appliances SIGNED INTO LAW 6/6/23
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By Representative Kipp

  • Status:

    • Signed by the Governor 6/6/2023.

  • Establishes the "Clean Lighting Act" to phase out the sale of general-purpose fluorescent light bulbs that contain mercury. With certain exceptions: 

  • On and after January 1, 2024, a person shall not manufacture, distribute, sell, or offer for sale in Colorado any new compact fluorescent lamp with a screw- or bayonet-type base; and

  • On and after January 1, 2025, a person shall not manufacture, distribute, sell, or offer for sale in Colorado any linear fluorescent lamp or any compact fluorescent lamp with a pin-type base.

Hawaii

HB 192 (Lowen): Relating to Energy Efficiency - SIGNED INTO LAW 7/5/23
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By Representative Lowen

  • Companion Bill SB 690 (Keohokalole)

  • Signed by the Governor on 7/5/2023

  • Prohibits the sale of certain fluorescent lamps as a new manufactured product, with certain exemptions.

Illnois

Illinois

HB 2363 (Smith): Clean Lighting Act
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By Representatives Smith

  • Status:

    •     2/14/2023: Referred to Rules Committee

  • Creates the Clean Lighting Act. Prohibits offering for final sale, selling at final sale, or distributing as a new manufactured product (i) a screw or bayonet base compact fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2024 and (ii) a pin-base compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2025. Exempts specified lamps from the Act. 

Maine

Maine

LD 1814 (Smith): An Act to Reduce Mercury in the Environment by Phasing Out Certain Fluorescent Light Bulbs - BECAME LAW 7/5/23
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By Representatives Bell, Bridgeo, Doudera, Gramlich, Schmersal-Burgess, and Woodsome.

  • Became law on 7/5/2023 without the Governor's signature.

  • On or after January 1, 2024, a person may not offer for sale, sell or distribute as a new manufactured product a mercury-added lamp that is a compact fluorescent lamp with a screw or bayonet base type. On or after January 1, 2025, a person may not offer for sale, sell or distribute as a new manufactured product a mercury added lamp that is a compact fluorescent lamp with a pin base type or that is a linear fluorescent lamp

MA

Massachusetts

MD
H.777 (Cutler): An Act Relative to Clean Lighting
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By Representative Cutler 

  • Companion bill: S.538 by Representative Moran

  • Status:

    • 4/18: Senate concurred

  • On and after January 1, 2024, no person shall offer for final sale or distribute in this state as a new manufactured product a screw or bayonet base type compact fluorescent lamp.

  • On and after January 1, 2025, no person shall offer for final sale or distribute in this state as a new manufactured product a pin-base type compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp.

Maryland

HB 1021 (Terrasa): Products That Contain Mercury - Fluorescent Lamps - Prohibition
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By Delegates Terrasa

  • Status:

    • 3/8/23: Hearing in the Economic Matters Committee starting at 1 PM EST

  • Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2024, a person from selling or distributing as a new manufactured product a screw- or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent lamp in the State; and prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2025, a person from selling or distributing as a new manufactured product a pin-base type compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp in the State.

NY

New York

SB 1278 (Krueger): Tobacco Waste Reduction Act
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By Senators Krueger, Biaggi, and Kaminsky

  • Status:

    • 1/5/2022: Referred to Senate Health Committee

  • Enacts the tobacco product waste reduction act prohibiting the sale or offering for sale of cigarettes utilizing single-use filters and single-use electronic cigarettes.

Nevada

AB 144 (Hatch): Revises provisions governing the sale of certain lighting products.
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By Assemblywoman Hatch

  • Status:

  • Prohibits a person, on and after January 1, 2024, from selling, offering to sell or otherwise distributing in this State a new compact fluorescent lamp with a screw or bayonet  base type

  • Prohibits a person, on and after January 1, 2025, from selling, offering to sell or otherwise distributing in this State a new compact fluorescent lamp with a pin base type or a linear fluorescent lamp.

New Mexico

HB 185 (Ortez): Enviro Standards for Appliances and Fixtures
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By Representatives Ortez and Caballero

  • Status:

    • 2/21: Reported by committee with Do Not Pass but with a Do Pass recommendation on Committee Substitution

  • Prohibits a person, on and after January 1, 2024, from selling, offering to sell or otherwise distributing in this State a new compact fluorescent lamp with a screw or bayonet  base type

  • Prohibits a person, on and after January 1, 2025, from selling, offering to sell or otherwise distributing in this State a new compact fluorescent lamp with a pin base type or a linear fluorescent lamp.

Oregon

HB 2531 (Marsh): Relating to fluorescent lamps; prescribing an effective date.
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By Representative Pam Marsh

  • Status:

    • Transmitted to Governor, awaiting signature.

  • Prohibits sale or distribution in this state of new screw- or bayonet-base type compact fluorescent lamps on or after January 1, 2024

RI

Rhode Island

 H 5550 (Handy): Mercury Reducation and Education Act - SIGNED INTO LAW 6/22/23
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By : Representatives Handy, Bennett, Edwards, Craven, McNamara, Morales, Cortvriend, and Fogarty

  • Signed by the Governor on 6/22/2023

  • Prohibits the sale: eff. 1/1/24 of screw/bayonet base compact fluorescent lamps; eff. 1/1/25 of pin-base type compact and linear fluorescent lamps with civil penalties for violations

WA

Washington

HB 1185 (Hackney): Reducing environmental impacts associated with lighting products
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By Representatives Hackney, Duerr, Berry, Ramel, Fitzgibbon, Doglio, Pollet

  • Status

    • 2/17: Referred to Rules 2 Review.

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HB 1164 (Doglio): Providing for the responsible management of appliances containing harmful gases and other materials.
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By Representatives Doglio, Fitzgibbon, Reed, Berry, Ramel, Macri, Lekanoff, Duerr, Pollet, Kloba

  • Status

    • 2/16: Scheduled for executive session in the House Committee on Environment & Energy at 8:00 AM (Subject to change)

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HB 5697 (Das & Rolfes): RENEW Act - Packaging & Paper Products EPR
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By Representatives Das, Rolfes, Kuderer, Lovelett, Lovick, Nguyen, Pedersen, Saldaña, Stanford

  • Status

    • 2/3: Referred to Ways & Means

  • Fact Sheet

  • The bill would create a coordinated, transparent statewide system for residential recycling that is funded by the producers of packaging and paper products (PPP); residents would no longer have to pay for recycling and local governments could seek reimbursement for their recycling services.

Local

LOCAL LEGISLATION

Please click on any of the following product stewardship council's websites for more information on local legislation in their states:

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COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

NSAC supported Cook County, IL as they shepherded their pharmaceutical safe disposal ordinance to passage, which was unanimously approved on 10/26/16. Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Commissioner Debra Shore noted NSAC's involvement in her 2016 Annual Report.

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