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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 674: Beverage containers: recycling: redemption payment and refund value.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 674 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Beverage containers: recycling: redemption payment and refund value. Primary sponsor: Christopher Cabaldon (D). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (August 29, 2025): August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

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 specifies that a beverage container that is a box, bladder, or pouch, or similar container, containing wine or distilled spirits has a redemption payment and refund value of $0.25.

This bill would reduce the redemption payment and refund value for one of those wine or distilled spirit beverage containers, if it has a capacity of less than 24 fluid ounces, from $0.25 to $0.10, beginning January 1, 2026. By expanding the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Christopher CabaldonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate3
Cecilia Aguiar-CurryCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly4

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. August 29 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
  2. July 16 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  3. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
  5. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1303.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1209.) (May 23).
  9. Set for hearing May 23.
  10. May 5 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
  11. Set for hearing May 5.
  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 867.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page