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| Bill | Solid waste: products: labeling: compostability and biodegradability. | Existing law prohibits a person from selling a plastic product that is labeled as "compostable" or "home compostable" unless, at the time of sale, the plastic product meets a specified specification or has a specified certification, as provided. Existing law prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is labeled as "biodegradable," "degradable," or "decomposable," and prohibits implying that a plastic product will break down, fragment, biodegrade, or decompose in a landfill or other environment, unless the plastic product meets one of several specified standards relating to environmental marketing claims. Existing law authorizes a person to sell commercial agricultural mulch film labeled with the term "soil biodegradable" only if the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery has adopted a certain specification and the commercial agricultural mulch film is certified to meet both that specification and the ASTM standard specification for compostability. | us/states/ca | California Legislature | 20212022 | AB 1201 | California AB 1201 (20212022) |
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California AB 1201 (20212022) — Solid waste: products: labeling: compostability and biodegradability.
Existing law prohibits a person from selling a plastic product that is labeled as "compostable" or "home compostable" unless, at the time of sale, the plastic product meets a specified specification or has a specified certification, as provided. Existing law prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is labeled as "biodegradable," "degradable," or "decomposable," and prohibits implying that a plastic product will break down, fragment, biodegrade, or decompose in a landfill or other environment, unless the plastic product meets one of several specified standards relating to environmental marketing claims. Existing law authorizes a person to sell commercial agricultural mulch film labeled with the term "soil biodegradable" only if the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery has adopted a certain specification and the commercial agricultural mulch film is certified to meet both that specification and the ASTM standard specification for compostability.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
- 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
- 06/23/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 08/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
- 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
- AB1201 (committee substitute) — source
- 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
- Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
- AB 1201 Ting Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1201 Ting et al. By Allen — 32–2 (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
- AB 1201 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Ting — primary (person)
- Friedman — author (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — author (person)
- Mathis — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print.
reading-1 - 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
referral-committee - 2021-03-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 24).
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee - 2021-04-05 Read second time and amended.
amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee - 2021-04-19 Coauthors revised.
- 2021-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee - 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20).
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1685.)
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1 - 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on E.Q.
referral-committee - 2021-06-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- 2021-06-23 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee - 2021-08-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- 2021-08-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee - 2021-08-23 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
referral-committee - 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 26).
amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage - 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1, reading-2 - 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2567.).
passage, reading-1, reading-3 - 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- 2021-09-09 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
- 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3072.).
amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable - 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature - 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 504, Statutes of 2021.
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9e55cccb-c1a2-4503-9d67-12f456a6585d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).