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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins."
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description: "Existing law requires a business that generates 4 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste, as defined, to arrange for recycling services, as specified. Existing law requires a business that is subject to that requirement that provides customers access to that business, including a theme park, amusement park, water park, resort or entertainment complex, zoo, attraction, or similar facility, to provide customers with a recycling bin or container for that waste stream that complies with prescribed requirements. Existing law exempts full-service restaurants, as defined, from the requirement to provide customers with a recycling bin or container if the full-service restaurant provides its employees a recycling bin or container for that waste stream to collect material purchased on the premises and implements a program to collect that waste stream."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 504"
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citation: "California AB 504 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 17
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2021-02-09"
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last_action: "2021-07-09"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a47bc9f-48e9-4fd0-ac06-6f2b419bf24d"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB504"
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source_hash: "5caab9c117aec0121aadcf0cf77a8040dfde2ddd6b2a29fda6be526ef74f7a77"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 504 (20212022) — Solid waste: commercial and organic waste: recycling bins.
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Existing law requires a business that generates 4 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste, as defined, to arrange for recycling services, as specified. Existing law requires a business that is subject to that requirement that provides customers access to that business, including a theme park, amusement park, water park, resort or entertainment complex, zoo, attraction, or similar facility, to provide customers with a recycling bin or container for that waste stream that complies with prescribed requirements. Existing law exempts full-service restaurants, as defined, from the requirement to provide customers with a recycling bin or container if the full-service restaurant provides its employees a recycling bin or container for that waste stream to collect material purchased on the premises and implements a program to collect that waste stream.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/09/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB504&version=20210AB50499INT)
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2. **07/09/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB504&version=20210AB50497CHP)
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3. **AB504** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB504)
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4. **06/25/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB504&version=20210AB50498ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Consent Calendar AB504 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 504 McCarty Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- McCarty — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2021-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
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- **2021-02-18** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-03-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-04-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1153.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2021-04-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-21** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1633.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2021-06-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2021-06-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2021-07-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2021-07-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 56, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a47bc9f-48e9-4fd0-ac06-6f2b419bf24d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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