AB-899 • 2026

Beverage containers: recycled glass: market development.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Ransom
Last action: 2025-10-11
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 627, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The exact details of how much money each company can receive are not specified beyond a maximum limit per ton of recycled glass used.

Recycling Glass Bottles: Helping Manufacturers

This law allows California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to give money to companies that use recycled glass to make new beverage containers, with specific limits on the amount of funding.

What This Bill Does

Allows the department to set market development payments for glass beverage container manufacturers who purchase recycled glass within California.
Sets a limit on the maximum payment at $150 per ton of recycled glass used by companies.
Increases annual spending from $60 million to $80 million starting January 1, 2028.
Authorizes an additional $20 million annually for market development payments between January 1, 2028 and January 1, 2030.

Who It Names or Affects

Glass beverage container manufacturers in California
The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

Terms To Know

Recycled glass: Glass that has been used, collected, and processed to make new products.
Market development payment: Money given by the state to help companies buy recycled materials for manufacturing.

Limits and Unknowns

The exact amount of money each company can get depends on how much recycled glass they use.
After January 1, 2030, the total yearly spending limit is $80 million.

Bill History

2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 627, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-16 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3113.).
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2602.).
2025-09-03 California Legislative Information
Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-03 California Legislative Information
From special consent calendar.
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-08-25 California Legislative Information
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-08-18 California Legislative Information
(Ayes 27. Noes 0. Page 2174.)
2025-08-18 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-08-13 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-16 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-18 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on E.Q.
2025-06-04 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2009.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-07 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-10 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
2025-04-07 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.
2025-04-03 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2025-02-19 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 899, Ransom.
Beverage containers: recycled glass: market development.
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act, a violation of which is a crime, requires a distributor of beverage containers, as defined, to pay to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a monthly redemption payment for every beverage container sold or transferred, as provided. The act requires the department to deposit those amounts into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund. The fund is continuously appropriated to, among other things, pay refund values and administrative fees to processors that receive empty beverage containers from recyclers. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2028, the department to pay a market development payment to a glass beverage container manufacturer who purchases recycled glass collected within this state for use in manufacturing new beverage containers in this state, as provided. The act requires the
department to set the market development payment at an amount not to exceed $50 per ton. The act continuously appropriates $60,000,000 annually from the fund to the department to the make market development payments.
This bill would authorize the department to set the market development payment at different levels, but would prohibit that payment from exceeding $150 per ton. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2028, and until January 1, 2030, authorize the department to expend $20,000,000 annually from the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for glass market development payments.

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