CA AB 2253

in committee

Solid waste: products: recycled content claims.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law requires a manufacturer or supplier making an environmental marketing claim relating to the recycled content of a plastic food container product to maintain specified information and documentation in written form in its records in support of that claim. Existing law requires the maintained information to include that the recycled content for materials has been diverted from the solid waste stream either during the manufacturing process (preconsumer) or after consumer use (postconsumer) and that the recycled content claim conforms to the uniform standards for recycled content contained in the Federal Trade Commission Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims. Existing law provides for the imposition of a civil penalty by a city, county, or the state for a violation of these provisions. This bill would expand the application of those provisions from plastic food container products to all products making recycled content claims. The bill would revise the reference to the Federal Trade Commission Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims to specifically refer to those guides as they read on January 1, 2026. The bill would additionally require documentation in written form that the recycled content material claimed does not exceed the amount of third-party certified recycled content introduced into the manufacturer's or supplier's overall supply stream for the material used in that product line. The bill would require the recycled content claim to be based on the actual recycled content used in the production of the material used in the product line using specified methods.

Introduced: 2026-04-07
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-19
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2026-03-09
Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
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2026-04-07
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (April 6).
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2026-04-08
Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-09
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-22
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-05-14
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (May 14).
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2026-05-18
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 19.)
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2026-05-28
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on E.Q.
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2026-06-25
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.
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2026-07-02
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (July 1).
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2026-07-02
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

02/19/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-19Compare
04/08/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-08Compare
06/25/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-25Compare
07/02/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-07-02Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-06 · pass · 10-4
Member-level votes (14)
- Connolly: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ellis: no
- Alanis: no
- Hoover: no
- Macedo: no
Do pass.
2026-05-14 · pass · 10-4
Member-level votes (15)
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Fong: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Tangipa: no
- Ta: no
- Dixon: no
- Hoover: no
- Calderon: other
AB 2253 Boerner Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-28 · pass · 42-19
Member-level votes (80)
- Bennett: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hart: yes
- Addis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ward: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lee: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Berman: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Haney: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Krell: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Macedo: no
- Davies: no
- Ávila Farías: no
- Patterson: no
- Ta: no
- Johnson: no
- Flora: no
- Chen: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Tangipa: no
- Ellis: no
- Hoover: no
- Hadwick: no
- Alanis: no
- Sanchez: no
- Lackey: no
- DeMaio: no
- Wallis: no
- Castillo: no
- Michelle Rodriguez: other
- Calderon: other
- Ramos: other
- Bains: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Soria: other
- McKinnor: other
- Zbur: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Carrillo: other
- Valencia: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Gipson: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Nguyen: other
- Dixon: other
- Mark González: other
- Solache: other
- Gallagher: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-07-01 · pass · 4-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Allen: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Dahle: no
- Valladares: no
- Hurtado: other

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