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Bill	Beverage containers: recycling and litter reduction: funds.	Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. After setting aside funds for the payment of refund values and administrative fees, and for a reserve for contingencies, the remaining moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department for expenditure for designated programs, grants, and fee payments, including annually expending up to $10,000,000 to make market development payments for empty plastic beverage containers, until January 1, 2012. The department is authorized to expend up to $20,000,000 annually, until January 1, 2012, for recycling market development grants and up to $20,000,000 annually, until January 1, 2012, for certain grants and programs, but is prohibited from expending those funds for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years. The department is also required to publish an evaluation of those grants by January 1, 2014. Existing law requires the department to determine the amount of the market development payment, but not more than a specified amount per ton. The department is required to establish a processing fee account for each material type and to deposit in the account, besides the processing fees paid for that material type, a specified amount of the remaining moneys in the fund.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1149	California AB 1149 (20112012)	bill appropriation	Beverage containers: recycling and litter reduction: funds.	enacted	Gordon	5	23	8	2011-02-18	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e89e5ed8-15fd-4495-93ba-be6955df251f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1149	6c2d9d94833e80e7240110c2b52bc74c0efb2759123fb5a61ad5ea085baa7e27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1149 (20112012) — Beverage containers: recycling and litter reduction: funds.

Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires a distributor to pay a redemption payment for every beverage container sold or offered for sale in the state to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. After setting aside funds for the payment of refund values and administrative fees, and for a reserve for contingencies, the remaining moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department for expenditure for designated programs, grants, and fee payments, including annually expending up to $10,000,000 to make market development payments for empty plastic beverage containers, until January 1, 2012. The department is authorized to expend up to $20,000,000 annually, until January 1, 2012, for recycling market development grants and up to $20,000,000 annually, until January 1, 2012, for certain grants and programs, but is prohibited from expending those funds for the 2010 and 2011 calendar years. The department is also required to publish an evaluation of those grants by January 1, 2014. Existing law requires the department to determine the amount of the market development payment, but not more than a specified amount per ton. The department is required to establish a processing fee account for each material type and to deposit in the account, besides the processing fees paid for that material type, a specified amount of the remaining moneys in the fund.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1149 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1149 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1149 Gordon By DeSaulnier — 31–4 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1149 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Wieckowski — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-17 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 1711.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 2364.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3090.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 486, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e89e5ed8-15fd-4495-93ba-be6955df251f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).