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 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly
 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-1046 Short-lived climate pollutants: recovered organic waste product: agricultural crop preparation service.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/14/2025 02:00 PM

AB1046:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 1046

 CHAPTER 719

An act to add Section 42652.7 to the Public Resources Code, relating to organic waste. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 13, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 13, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1046, Bains.
 Short-lived climate pollutants: recovered organic waste product: agricultural crop preparation service.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to implement a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a reduction in statewide emissions of methane by 40% below 2013 levels by 2030. Existing law requires the methane emissions reduction goals to include a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations to achieve these organic waste reduction goals that include, among other things, requirements intended to meet the goal that not less than 20% of edible food that is currently disposed of be recovered for human consumption by 2025 and that may include penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance, as provided.

The
 regulations, among other things, require a commercial edible food generator, as defined, to have a contract or written agreement with a food recovery organization, as defined, to recover the maximum amount of edible food that would otherwise be disposed, as provided. The regulations also require a commercial edible food generator to keep certain records regarding the recovery of edible food.

This bill would exempt from these requirements an agricultural crop preparation service, as defined, that demonstrates to the department that it has not disposed of organic waste
 in a landfill
 on or after January 1, 2016.

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 42652.7 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:

42652.7.

 Article 10 (commencing with Section 18991.1) of Chapter 12 of Division 7 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations does not apply to an agricultural crop preparation service, as defined in Section 3001 of Title 13 of the California Code of Regulations, that demonstrates to the department, in a form and manner developed by the department, that it has not disposed of organic waste, including, but not limited to, culls, fruit skins, hulls, leaves, seed pits, shells, and
 sticks, in a landfill on or after January 1, 2016.