California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2253: Solid waste: products: recycled content claims.
Status: Vetoed, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 42357.6 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. solid waste Solid waste: products: recycled content claims. 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 and to, upon request, furnish that maintained information to any member of the public, as specified…
From the enrolled text, September 3, 2026:
An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 42357.6 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. solid waste Solid waste: products: recycled content claims. 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 and to, upon request, furnish that maintained information to any member of the public, as specified. 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, beginning January 1, 2030, 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 …
Sponsors
- Tasha Boerner (D, AD77) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Vetoed by Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 20. Page 6892.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 20.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10.).
- : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Votes
- AB 2253 Boerner Concurrence in Senate Amendments (August 30, 2026): 42 yea, 20 nay, passed
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2253 Boerner By Reyes (August 28, 2026): 28 yea, 10 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended (August 13, 2026): 5 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Placed on suspense file (August 3, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (July 1, 2026): 4 yea, 2 nay, passed
- AB 2253 Boerner Assembly Third Reading (May 27, 2026): 42 yea, 19 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB2253?
- AB2253 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Solid waste: products: recycled content claims.
- What does AB2253 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 42357.6 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. solid waste Solid waste: products: recycled content claims. 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 and to, upon request, furnish that maintained information to any member of the public, as specified…
- What is the status of AB2253?
- Vetoed as of September 27, 2026. Latest action: Vetoed by Governor. (September 27, 2026).
- Who sponsored AB2253?
- Tasha Boerner (D, AD77).
- Where is the official record for AB2253?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2253
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