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 05/18/26 - Amended Senate
 04/28/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1341 Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits: processing fees.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/16/2026 04:00 AM

SB1341:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 28, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1341

Introduced by Senator Cabaldon

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Section 14575 of Sections 14505 and 14575 of, and to add Section 14503.5.3 to, the Public Resources Code, relating to beverage containers. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1341, as amended, Cabaldon.
 Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits: processing fees.

The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a beverage manufacturer to pay to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a processing fee for each beverage container, as defined, sold or transferred in this state. The act requires the department to deposit the fee into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. The act requires the department to pay processing payments to processors and recycling centers from the fund, as specified. The act requires the processing payment to be at least equal to the difference between the scrap value of the beverage containers and the sum of certain actual operational costs for certified recycling centers and a reasonable financial return for recycling centers, as specified. The act requires the processing fee to be 65% of the processing payment, except as specified.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the department, in calculating the processing fee for a beverage container that is a box, bladder, pouch, or similar container containing wine or distilled spirits, establish the processing fee at a level that does not impose an economic burden on beverage manufacturers and generates sufficient funds to make processing payments to recyclers, as specified.

This bill would define “bag in box” to mean a container for certain alcoholic beverages that has an interior flexible bag with a valve to dispense a beverage and a rigid cardboard or corrugated paper box designed to contain the bag, as provided. The bill would, for purposes of the act, specify that the bag is a beverage container and that the box is not. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, require the processing fee for the bag to be calculated based on the weight of the bag and its valve.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NOYES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 14503.5.3 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

14503.5.3.

 (a) “Bag in box” means a container for wine, distilled spirits, or wine and distilled spirit cooler that has both of the following:

(1) An interior flexible bag with a valve to dispense a beverage.

(2) A rigid box composed primarily of cardboard or corrugated paper that is designed to contain the bag described in paragraph (1) and to allow the bag’s valve to extend through the box to dispense the beverage. The box may, but need not, be rectangular in shape.

(b) Consistent with Section 14505, the interior flexible bag described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) is a beverage container and the rigid box
 described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) is not a beverage container.

SEC. 2.

 Section 14505 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

14505.

 “Beverage container” means the individual, separate bottle, can, jar, carton, or other receptacle, however denominated, in which a beverage is sold, and which is constructed of metal, glass, or plastic, or other material, or any combination of these materials. “Beverage container” does not include cups either of the following:

(a) Cups
 or other similar open or loosely sealed receptacles.

(b) The rigid box for a bag in box described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 14503.5.3.

SECTION 1.SEC. 3.

 Section 14575 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

14575.

 (a) If any type of empty beverage container wi