---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recycling: beverage containers."
description: "Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires that every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state have a minimum refund value, and requires a beverage manufacturer to indicate on all beverage containers sold or offered for sale in the state the message \"California Redemption Value\" or one of similar alternative messages, as specified. A beverage distributor is required to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to a dealer, and the department is required to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2530"
citation: "California AB 2530 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Recycling: beverage containers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3530c6c6-dfc3-4991-85d5-afef644c262a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530"
source_hash: "6c99e559ff64cbe03b86e2a7a60d5c61beacb15c51452e4ac7e2454d2dc909f0"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2530 (20152016) — Recycling: beverage containers.

Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires that every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state have a minimum refund value, and requires a beverage manufacturer to indicate on all beverage containers sold or offered for sale in the state the message "California Redemption Value" or one of similar alternative messages, as specified. A beverage distributor is required to pay a redemption payment to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to a dealer, and the department is required to deposit those amounts in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253099INT)
2. **04/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253098AMD)
3. **06/01/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253097AMD)
4. **06/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253096AMD)
5. **09/30/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253094CHP)
6. **AB2530** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530)
7. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2530&version=20150AB253095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **15–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2530 Gordon By Wieckowski — **22–16** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2530 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **55–21** (pass) · lower
- AB 2530 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **59–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gordon — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-08** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-18** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (May 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 5166.)
- **2016-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 11. Page 5249.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 16. Page 5242.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 6282.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2016-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 861, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3530c6c6-dfc3-4991-85d5-afef644c262a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).