---
type: "Bill"
title: "Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins."
description: "Existing law requires a business that generates 4 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste or 8 cubic yards or more of organic waste per week to arrange for recycling services, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 827"
citation: "California AB 827 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-20"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78b74234-e86d-4ce3-b1fe-70f9606707b7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827"
source_hash: "4c769193d97e026c21c5d0ceec2f8e41fcd0460e0f5f35f6fa009a2ca15e07d6"
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 827 (20192020) — Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins.

Existing law requires a business that generates 4 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste or 8 cubic yards or more of organic waste per week to arrange for recycling services, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82799INT)
2. **04/02/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82798AMD)
3. **05/23/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82797AMD)
4. **06/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82796AMD)
5. **08/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82795AMD)
6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82793CHP)
7. **AB827** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827)
8. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB827&version=20190AB82794ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB827 McCarty By Allen — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 827 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — **55–9** (pass) · lower
- AB 827 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–11** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McCarty — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2019-03-04** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 9. Page 1567.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-10** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2464.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 11. Page 3031.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 441, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78b74234-e86d-4ce3-b1fe-70f9606707b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).