republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1005.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act: market development payments."
description: "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 by the distributor to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department for certain payments, including market development payments. Existing law authorizes the department, until that authorization is repealed on January 1, 2017, to (1) annually expend up to $10,000,000 from the fund to make market development payments to an entity certified by the department as a recycling center, processor, or dropoff or collection program for empty plastic beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into flake, pellet, or other form, and made usable for the manufacture of a plastic product, or to a product manufacturer for empty plastic beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into flake, pellet, or other form, and used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a product, and to (2) expend additional amounts to make market development payments, calculated as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1005"
citation: "California AB 1005 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act: market development payments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2016-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50293a57-7034-4c90-8633-d51e4fa42b0e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005"
source_hash: "8e232300021b2b8aa5411ed5f5db8ab413c98505b258137491c067c221e346e8"
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 1005 (20152016) — California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act: market development payments.

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 by the distributor to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for deposit in the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. Moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the department for certain payments, including market development payments. Existing law authorizes the department, until that authorization is repealed on January 1, 2017, to (1) annually expend up to $10,000,000 from the fund to make market development payments to an entity certified by the department as a recycling center, processor, or dropoff or collection program for empty plastic beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into flake, pellet, or other form, and made usable for the manufacture of a plastic product, or to a product manufacturer for empty plastic beverage containers that are subsequently washed and processed into flake, pellet, or other form, and used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a product, and to (2) expend additional amounts to make market development payments, calculated as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100599INT)
2. **01/04/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100597AMD)
3. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100598AMD)
4. **06/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100596AMD)
5. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100595AMD)
6. **09/22/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100593CHP)
7. **AB1005** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005)
8. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1005&version=20150AB100594ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1005 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **75–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1005 Gordon By Wieckowski — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1005 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gordon — primary (person)
- Levine — author (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-04-27** In committee: Testimony taken. Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & C. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on U. & C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2016-01-05** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 5). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2016-01-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-01-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-01-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-01-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-01-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 3476.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-01-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 8). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5246.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6286.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 442, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50293a57-7034-4c90-8633-d51e4fa42b0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).