republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-54.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act."
description: "Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to annually designate convenience zones and requires that at least one certified recycling center that meets certain requirements be located within every convenience zone. The act requires dealers within a convenience zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is unserved for 60 days and not exempt from convenience zone requirements, to submit an affidavit to the department stating that the dealer has met specified standards for redemption, including, among others, that the dealer is redeeming all empty beverage container types at all open cash registers or at one designated location on the dealer's premises, during all hours that the dealer is open for business. If the dealer does not submit that affidavit, existing law requires the dealer to pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provision."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 54"
citation: "California AB 54 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12fb11fe-bedc-486e-b47e-2a28dadbf802"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54"
source_hash: "570b125ce1f9d8ea73b9ea928cc3fd532167d1b51e91267ea73c4448765cdfaf"
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 54 (20192020) — The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act.

Existing law, the California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to annually designate convenience zones and requires that at least one certified recycling center that meets certain requirements be located within every convenience zone. The act requires dealers within a convenience zone where no recycling location has been established, or within a convenience zone that is unserved for 60 days and not exempt from convenience zone requirements, to submit an affidavit to the department stating that the dealer has met specified standards for redemption, including, among others, that the dealer is redeeming all empty beverage container types at all open cash registers or at one designated location on the dealer's premises, during all hours that the dealer is open for business. If the dealer does not submit that affidavit, existing law requires the dealer to pay $100 per day to the department, for deposit in the continuously appropriated California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, until a recycling location is established or until the dealer meets the standards for redemption specified in the affidavit provision.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54&version=20190AB5499INT)
2. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54&version=20190AB5498AMD)
3. **09/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54&version=20190AB5497AMD)
4. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54&version=20190AB5495CHP)
5. **AB54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54)
6. **09/20/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB54&version=20190AB5496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 54 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 54 Ting Third Reading Urgency — **65–6** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB54 Ting et al. By Skinner Urgency Clause — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)
- Stern — principal coauthor (person)
- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-17** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (February 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-25** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 6. Page 813.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-03-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-09-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-09-09** Joint Rules 61 and 62 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2689.)
- **2019-09-09** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-10** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2746.)
- **2019-09-10** 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`
- **2019-09-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-09-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-09-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-13** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2948.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3609.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 793, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12fb11fe-bedc-486e-b47e-2a28dadbf802`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).