republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2346.md

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Bill	Organic waste reduction regulations: procurement of recovered organic waste products.	Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, as provided. The department's organic waste regulations require local jurisdictions to annually procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products and to comply with their procurement targets by directly procuring recovered organic waste products for use or giveaway or by requiring, through a written agreement, that a direct service provider to the jurisdiction procure recovered organic waste products, or both. Those regulations specify the types of recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure, including compost that is produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility, or a specified digestion facility that composts onsite. Other regulations of the department require all compostable materials handling activities to obtain a facility permit from the department prior to commencing operations and meet other specified requirements, but exclude from those requirements certain activities that the regulations state do not constitute a compostable material handling operation or facility, including the composting of green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, and the handling of compostable materials under certain conditions, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2346	California AB 2346 (20232024)	bill	Organic waste reduction regulations procurement of recovered organic waste products	enacted	Lee	9	27	8	2024-02-12	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/be493a5c-4697-4027-a3e3-bce4647ea126	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2346	9d6f29face5950c18dfeed9fd77ef98b2c3424f5325c87841fd3802ed4bcfcab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2346 (20232024) — Organic waste reduction regulations: procurement of recovered organic waste products.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to complete, approve, and implement a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state to reduce the statewide methane emissions by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve specified targets for reducing organic waste in landfills, as provided. The department's organic waste regulations require local jurisdictions to annually procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products and to comply with their procurement targets by directly procuring recovered organic waste products for use or giveaway or by requiring, through a written agreement, that a direct service provider to the jurisdiction procure recovered organic waste products, or both. Those regulations specify the types of recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure, including compost that is produced at a compostable material handling operation or facility, or a specified digestion facility that composts onsite. Other regulations of the department require all compostable materials handling activities to obtain a facility permit from the department prior to commencing operations and meet other specified requirements, but exclude from those requirements certain activities that the regulations state do not constitute a compostable material handling operation or facility, including the composting of green material, agricultural material, food material, and vegetative food material, and the handling of compostable materials under certain conditions, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2346 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/24 - 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 as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2346 Lee By Ashby — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2346 Lee Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2346 Lee Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lee — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2024-02-26 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5088.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-05-15 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2024-06-20 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
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 712, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be493a5c-4697-4027-a3e3-bce4647ea126. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).