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Bill	Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum recycled content.	(1) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 793	California AB 793 (20192020)	bill	Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum recycled content.	enacted	Ting	10	27	7	2019-02-20	2020-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/69e5cd8a-af4a-4b07-b863-3025772ad102	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB793	ab56e99a6ed162d1884472b778d53129f4bc146bc7fab17c2dfc65dd0a4458d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 793 (20192020) — Recycling: plastic beverage containers: minimum recycled content.

(1) The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee for each beverage container with a specified scrap value, which is required to be paid by beverage manufacturers for each beverage container sold or transferred to a distributor or dealer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB793 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 793 Ting Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 793 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB793 Ting et al. By Skinner — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)
• Irwin — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-21 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2019-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1522.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on EQ. referral-committee
• 2020-06-19 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
• 2020-08-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 14). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5380.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 115, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69e5cd8a-af4a-4b07-b863-3025772ad102. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).