California AB 161: Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.

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 AB-161 Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.(2019-2020)

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 Date Published: 06/27/2019 09:00 PM

AB161:v93#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 27, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 17, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 07, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 30, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 02, 2019

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2019

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 161

Introduced by Assembly Member Ting
(Principal coauthor: Senator Stern)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Chiu and Mark Stone)
(Coauthor: Senator Wiener)

January 07, 2019

 An act to amend Section 1747.08 of the Civil Code, and to add Chapter 5.8 (commencing with Section 42359) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 161, as amended, Ting.
 Solid waste: paper waste: electronic proofs of purchase.

Existing law prohibits certain stores from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale and prohibits full-service restaurants from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer.

This bill, on and after January 1, 2022, bill would require a business, defined as a company business, as defined, that accepts payment through credit
 cash, credit, or debit transactions, subject to certain exceptions, to provide a proof of purchase to a consumer only at the consumer’s option and would prohibit a business from printing a paper proof of purchase if the consumer opts to not receive a proof of purchase, unless otherwise required by state or federal law. The bill, on and after January 1, 2024, if a consumer opts to receive a proof of purchase, would require the proof of purchase to be provided in electronic form or paper form, at the
 consumer’s option, unless a prescribed form is otherwise required by state or federal law. The bill would prohibit a paper proof of purchase provided to a consumer by a business from containing bisphenol A or bisphenol S, and from including items not essential to the transaction, including, but not limited to, coupons or advertisements. The bill would specify that the first and 2nd violations of any of those provisions would result in a notice of violation and any subsequent violation would be punishable by a civil penalty of $25 for each day the business is in violation, but not to exceed an annual total of $300. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney to enforce those provisions. The bill would make these provisions operative on January 1, 2022.

Existing law prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that accepts credit cards for the transaction of business from requesting or requiring the cardholder to provide personal identification information, which is then recorded, as a condition to accepting the credit card as payment in full or in part for goods or services, subject to specified exceptions.

This bill would exempt from that
 requirement a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that is a business, as would be defined pursuant to the above provisions, is requesting personal identification information that is necessary to provide the cardholder with a receipt in electronic form pursuant to the above provisions, and does not use the personal identification information for marketing purposes.

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.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) The report titled “Skip the Slip: Environmental Costs & Human Health Risks of Paper Receipts with Proposed Solutions” from Green America found that more than 3,000,000 trees and 9,000,000,000 gallons of water in America are used to create proof of purchase receipts.

(b) Receipts generate 302,000,000 pounds of waste and 4,000,000,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of more than 425,000 cars on the road, and most paper receipts con