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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 731: Trash receptacles and storage containers: reflective markings.

Enacted 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 731 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Trash receptacles and storage containers: reflective markings. Primary sponsor: Bob Archuleta (D). Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

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

Existing law requires a manufacturer who sells or provides for compensation, and, commencing January 1, 2026, an owner of, a trash receptacle or storage container that is longer than 3 feet and taller than 4 feet and that is designed to be placed on a roadway or the curb of a roadway in order to be emptied or picked up to mark the receptacle or container with a reflector on each side. Existing law additionally requires 8 strips of fluorescent yellow reflective tape made of certain high-performance retroreflective sheeting to be placed on specified locations on a trash receptacle or storage container, unless the trash receptacle or storage container’s reflective tape is made of the high-performance retroreflective sheeting and was applied before July 1, 2023.

This bill would apply this exemption from the additional, 8-strip requirement to a receptacle or container with reflectors applied prior to January 1, 2025, and would eliminate the exemption’s requirement for the reflectors to be reflective tape made of certain high-performance retroreflective sheeting. The bill would require, when not exempted, the reflective tape for a storage container transported by truck and trailer to be fluorescent yellow, red, white, or alternating red and white, and be made of specified high-performance retroreflective sheeting.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Bob ArchuletaPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate30

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 232, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2444.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2777.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  8. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
  9. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
  11. July 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
  12. Referred to Com. on TRANS.

Sources

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