CA AB 2559
enactedSolid waste: construction debris: diversion: deposits.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 2559 pass?
Yes. CA AB 2559 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-07-16): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 2559 about?
Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, establishes an integrated waste management program and requires the department to adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out the act. Existing law requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, and nondisposal facility element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires the source reduction and recycling element to divert from disposal 50% of all solid waste subject to the element through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities, with specified exceptions. This bill would require a city or county that requires a refundable deposit, performance security, or similar financial guarantee as a condition of issuing a construction, demolition, or building permit for the purpose of ensuring compliance with a construction or demolition debris requirement to return the full amount of the deposit if documentation demonstrating compliance with the terms of the deposit is provided, as specified.
Who sponsors CA AB 2559?
Ward is the primary sponsor of CA AB 2559.
Description
Existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, establishes an integrated waste management program and requires the department to adopt rules and regulations, as necessary, to carry out the act. Existing law requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling element, household hazardous waste element, and nondisposal facility element of an integrated waste management plan. The act requires the source reduction and recycling element to divert from disposal 50% of all solid waste subject to the element through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities, with specified exceptions. This bill would require a city or county that requires a refundable deposit, performance security, or similar financial guarantee as a condition of issuing a construction, demolition, or building permit for the purpose of ensuring compliance with a construction or demolition debris requirement to return the full amount of the deposit if documentation demonstrating compliance with the terms of the deposit is provided, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2026-04-07
- Latest action
- 2026-07-16 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2026.
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- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Wardauthor
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-07-16
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 97, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-07-16
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-07-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
executive-receipt
2026-07-02
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-07-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5189.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-06-30
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-29
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-05-28
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on E.Q.
referral-committee
2026-04-28
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-04-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4837.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-04-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 22).
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2026-04-09
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2026-04-08
Read second time and amended.
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2026-04-07
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 6).
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2026-03-09
Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
referral-committee
2026-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-06 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (14)
- Connolly: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Haney: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Boerner: yes
Do pass.
2026-04-22 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Muratsuchi: other
- Calderon: other
AB 2559 Ward Assembly Third Reading
2026-04-27 · pass · 65-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Davies: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Soria: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Berman: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Haney: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Chen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ta: yes
- Papan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ramos: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Solache: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Lee: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Macedo: other
- Pellerin: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Stefani: other
- Bains: other
- Bonta: other
- Flora: other
- Gabriel: other
- Boerner: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Bennett: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Bryan: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Ellis: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-17 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Allen: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2026-07-02 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Durazo: yes
- Grove: yes
- Jones: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Limón: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Laird: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Rubio: other
- Richardson: other
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