republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2511.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Beverage container recycling: market development payments."
description: "The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling. The act authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a market development payment to a reclaimer for empty plastic beverage containers that have been collected for recycling in the state, and that the reclaimer washes and processes into flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form that is then usable as input for the manufacture of new plastic products by product manufacturers in the state. The act also authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a market development payment to a product manufacturer for plastic flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form of plastic purchased from a reclaimer and used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a plastic product in the state. The act makes this market development payment program inoperative on July 1, 2025. The act continuously appropriates redemption payments by distributors and other revenues received into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund for market development program payments, among other purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2511"
citation: "California AB 2511 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Beverage container recycling", "market development payments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbfd50f7-acf7-4a36-ae2d-c944270fb342"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511"
source_hash: "083bbb3a8ebbcd0795558d4120b6385ef88fb80f48134b79c3b23f13023e9142"
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 2511 (20232024) — Beverage container recycling: market development payments.

The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, which is administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, is established to promote beverage container recycling. The act authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a market development payment to a reclaimer for empty plastic beverage containers that have been collected for recycling in the state, and that the reclaimer washes and processes into flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form that is then usable as input for the manufacture of new plastic products by product manufacturers in the state. The act also authorizes the department, subject to the availability of funds, to pay a market development payment to a product manufacturer for plastic flake, pellet, sheet, or any other form of plastic purchased from a reclaimer and used by that product manufacturer to manufacture a plastic product in the state. The act makes this market development payment program inoperative on July 1, 2025. The act continuously appropriates redemption payments by distributors and other revenues received into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund for market development program payments, among other purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511&version=20230AB251199INT)
2. **05/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511&version=20230AB251198AMD)
3. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511&version=20230AB251196CHP)
4. **AB2511** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511)
5. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2511&version=20230AB251197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2511 Berman Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB2511 Berman By Roth — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5425.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 405, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbfd50f7-acf7-4a36-ae2d-c944270fb342`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).