Battery recycling: records retention.

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 495 Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover February 07, 2023 An act to add Chapter 8.3 (commencing with Section 42450.8) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to recycling, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 495, as introduced, Hoover. Battery recycling: records retention. The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006 requires every retailer, as defined, to have in place a system for the acceptance and collection of used rechargeable batteries for reuse, recycling, or proper disposal. The act requires each July 1, the Department of Toxic Substances Control to survey battery handling or battery recycling facilities, or both, and to post on its internet website the estimated amount, by weight, of each type of rechargeable battery returned for recycling in California during the previous calendar year. Existing law makes the act inoperative on September 30, 2026, and repeals the act on January 1, 2027. This bill would require the department to continue to post that information on its internet website on and after October 1, 2026. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 8.3 (commencing with Section 42450.8) is added to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, to read: CHAPTER 8.3. Retention of Records Reported Under the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Act of 2006 42450.8. On and after October 1, 2026, all information posted by the department on its internet website pursuant to Section 42456 shall continue to be posted on the department’s internet website. SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are: In order to ensure that the state takes immediate action so that the information posted prior to October 1, 2026, by the Department of Toxic Substances Control on its internet website pursuant to Section 42456 of the Public Resources Code continues to be posted on the department’s internet website after that date, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.