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 AB-337 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: grant program: edible food.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 01/28/2025 09:00 PM

AB337:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 337

Introduced by Assembly Member Bennett

January 28, 2025

 An act to amend Section 42999 of the Public Resources Code, relating to greenhouse gases. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 337, as introduced, Bennett.
 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: grant program: edible food.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board as a part of the market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, upon appropriation, to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to promote the in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste, sort and aggregate or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added
 products, or divert items from disposal through enhanced reuse opportunities. Existing law requires the grant program to provide eligible financial assistance for certain activities, including activities that expand and improve organic waste diversion and recycling, including, but not limited to, the recovery of food for human consumption and food waste prevention. Existing law specifies eligible infrastructure projects for purposes of the program, including, but not limited to, the construction of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations.

This bill would expand the grant program to provide financial assistance for the recovery of edible food, as specified. The bill would specify that eligible infrastructure projects includes the construction or expansion of facilities to help develop, implement, or expand edible food waste recovery operations. The bill would require the department to consider the increased amount of
 edible food recovery capacity that the project will create when awarding a grant for edible food recovery.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 42999 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

42999.

 (a) The department shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to promote in-state development of infrastructure, food waste prevention, or other projects to reduce organic waste, sort and aggregate or process organic and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products, or divert items from disposal through enhanced reuse opportunities. Moneys appropriated by the Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, to the department shall be expended consistent with the requirements of Article 9.7 (commencing with Section 16428.8) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code and Chapter 4.1 (commencing with Section 39710) of Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety
 Code.

(b) Eligible financial assistance shall be provided for any of the following:

(1) Organics composting.

(2) Organics in-vessel digestion.

(3) Recyclable material manufacturing.

(4) Activities that expand and improve organic waste diversion and recycling, including, but not limited to, the recovery of food for human consumption and food waste prevention.

(5) Preprocessing organic materials for composting or organics in-vessel digestion.

(6) Codigestion at existing wastewater treatment plants.

(7) Increasing opportunities for reuse of materials diverted from landfill disposal.

(8) Recyclable material recovery, sorting, or bailing equipment for use at publicly owned facilities. Eligibility for funding under this pa