republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-729.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Carpet recycling: carpet stewardship."
description: "(1) Existing law requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state to submit, either individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, a carpet stewardship plan that meets specified requirements to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and requires the department to approve or disapprove the plan. Existing law imposes a carpet stewardship assessment per unit of carpet sold in the state that is remitted by carpet manufacturers to the carpet stewardship organization and may be expended to carry out the organization's carpet stewardship plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 729"
citation: "California AB 729 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Carpet recycling: carpet stewardship."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chu"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0221f3c-ce17-4944-969f-8b59e9bcec85"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729"
source_hash: "ad03c21e14d2770ff316edb2ba7ce6b5d138897c5f92ace183164c913906b4de"
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 729 (20192020) — Carpet recycling: carpet stewardship.

(1) Existing law requires a manufacturer of carpets sold in this state to submit, either individually or through a carpet stewardship organization, a carpet stewardship plan that meets specified requirements to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, and requires the department to approve or disapprove the plan. Existing law imposes a carpet stewardship assessment per unit of carpet sold in the state that is remitted by carpet manufacturers to the carpet stewardship organization and may be expended to carry out the organization's carpet stewardship plan.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72999INT)
2. **04/10/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72998AMD)
3. **06/20/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72997AMD)
4. **07/05/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72996AMD)
5. **10/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72994CHP)
6. **AB729** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729)
7. **09/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB729&version=20190AB72995ENR)

## Votes

- AB 729 Chu Assembly Third Reading — **58–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB729 Chu By Jackson — **27–11** (pass) · upper
- AB 729 Chu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chu — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** 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`
- **2019-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-13** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
- **2019-05-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 1779.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Coms. on EQ. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on EQ. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2515.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 3126.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 680, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0221f3c-ce17-4944-969f-8b59e9bcec85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).