---
type: "Bill"
title: "Solid waste: precheckout and carryout bags."
description: "Existing law enacts provisions regulating the sale and distribution of reusable grocery bags to customers and prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, except a compostable bag under specified conditions. Existing law defines a \"single-use carryout bag\" for this purpose to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale and that is not a recycled paper bag, as defined, or a reusable grocery bag that meets specified requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 1046"
citation: "California SB 1046 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Solid waste: precheckout and carryout bags."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d618d4d5-a1a2-4258-9724-f67fda3cc2d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046"
source_hash: "890847b0d8910d7be94ffac01a39500ca10e749781ec41c107e7e0b79abd5987"
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 1046 (20212022) — Solid waste: precheckout and carryout bags.

Existing law enacts provisions regulating the sale and distribution of reusable grocery bags to customers and prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, except a compostable bag under specified conditions. Existing law defines a "single-use carryout bag" for this purpose to mean a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale and that is not a recycled paper bag, as defined, or a reusable grocery bag that meets specified requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104699INT)
2. **03/14/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104698AMD)
3. **05/17/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104697AMD)
4. **06/13/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104696AMD)
5. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104694CHP)
6. **SB1046** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046)
7. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1046&version=20210SB104695ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB1046 Eggman et al. — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1046 Eggman et al. Concurrence — **32–8** (pass) · upper
- SB 1046 Eggman Senate Third Reading By Friedman — **54–18** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eggman — primary (person)
- Gonzalez — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-15** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-16** From printer.
- **2022-02-23** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Set for hearing March 28.
- **2022-03-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3238.) (March 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-17** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 3865.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 54. Noes 18. Page 5927.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 5077.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 991, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d618d4d5-a1a2-4258-9724-f67fda3cc2d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).