---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recycling."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to develop a comprehensive market development plan that will stimulate market demand in the state for postconsumer waste material and secondary waste material generated in the state. Existing law authorizes a local governing body, as defined, to propose eligible property within its jurisdiction as a recycling market development zone, as defined, and authorizes the department to designate recycling market development zones."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 662"
citation: "California SB 662 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Recycling."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Environmental Quality"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d0bc301-adec-4bfd-aea3-100852975889"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB662"
source_hash: "460e159e426bc114e3c54dc5e22cf93aaf268587987f6f5a800bbbfd59108ed7"
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 SB 662 (20152016) — Recycling.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to develop a comprehensive market development plan that will stimulate market demand in the state for postconsumer waste material and secondary waste material generated in the state. Existing law authorizes a local governing body, as defined, to propose eligible property within its jurisdiction as a recycling market development zone, as defined, and authorizes the department to designate recycling market development zones.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB662&version=20150SB66299INT)
2. **10/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB662&version=20150SB66297CHP)
3. **SB662** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB662)
4. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB662&version=20150SB66298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 662 E.Q. Senate Third Reading By GORDON — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB662 Committee On E.Q. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Environmental Quality — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-17** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 650.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-17** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2015-04-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 779.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 928.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-08** July 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2015-08-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2850.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-03** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2015-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 453, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d0bc301-adec-4bfd-aea3-100852975889`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).