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Bill	Medical waste.	(1) Existing law, the Medical Waste Management Act, regulates the disposal of medical waste, including requiring specified biohazard materials to be disposed of in biohazard bags and requiring specified treatment for medical waste. Transportation, storage, treatment, or disposal of medical waste in a manner not authorized by the act is a crime. Existing law defines specified terms for purposes of the Medical Waste Management Act, including "biohazard bag," "medical waste management plan," "sharps container," "tracking document," and "treatment." Under existing law, health care professionals who generate medical waste are generally required to have medical waste transported by a registered hazardous waste transporter.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 333	California AB 333 (20132014)	bill	Medical waste.	enacted	Wieckowski	12	35	9	2013-02-13	2014-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b973f581-2a89-45c0-b1a8-698602850c14	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB333	1fcc240cb6de99faee80b434395dd4e65cbd2ed8f57609c33c5e916abaf2a840	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 333 (20132014) — Medical waste.

(1) Existing law, the Medical Waste Management Act, regulates the disposal of medical waste, including requiring specified biohazard materials to be disposed of in biohazard bags and requiring specified treatment for medical waste. Transportation, storage, treatment, or disposal of medical waste in a manner not authorized by the act is a crime. Existing law defines specified terms for purposes of the Medical Waste Management Act, including "biohazard bag," "medical waste management plan," "sharps container," "tracking document," and "treatment." Under existing law, health care professionals who generate medical waste are generally required to have medical waste transported by a registered hazardous waste transporter.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/08/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/21/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/24/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/20/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB333 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 333 WIECKOWSKI Assembly Third Reading — 67–6 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB333 Wieckowski By Hill — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 333 WIECKOWSKI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wieckowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2013-02-28 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2013-03-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2013-04-12 Measure version as amended on March 12 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-05-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 6. Page 1564.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-06 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2013-07-11 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-05-21 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-04 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. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4890.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2014-08-28 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6635.)
• 2014-08-29 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage
• 2014-08-29 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6717.)
• 2014-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 2. Page 6722.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 564, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b973f581-2a89-45c0-b1a8-698602850c14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).