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California 20252026

AB 864

Hazardous waste: solar photovoltaic modules.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Hazardouswaste, solarphotovoltaicmodules
Introduced / first action
2025-02-19 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations for the identification and management of hazardous wastes. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt regulations designating end-of-life photovoltaic modules that are identified as hazardous waste as a universal waste and subject to regulations applicable to universal waste management. Federal regulations identify solid wastes which are subject to regulation as hazardous wastes. Federal regulations exclude from the definition of solid waste for that purpose hazardous secondary material that is generated and then transferred to another person for the purpose of reclamation under specified circumstances. This bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2028, to convene one or more public workshops for interested parties to comment on the applicability of the above-described federal regulations to hazardous waste streams, including, but not limited to, solar photovoltaic modules, generated in California. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2029, to consider the feedback received and evaluate the applicability of those federal regulations to end-of-life solar photovoltaic modules as an alternative to one or more of the state standards governing hazardous waste and universal waste management. The bill would authorize the department, based on findings of the evaluation, to adopt, by regulation, the federal regulations, subject to revision as necessary, and apply them to end-of-life solar photovoltaic modules that are identified as hazardous waste under existing state law.

Sponsors

  • Ward (primary), author

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  2. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).

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  3. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  4. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).

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  5. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  7. Ordered to second reading.

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  8. From inactive file.

  9. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney.

  10. Ordered to third reading.

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  11. From special consent calendar.

  12. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  13. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  14. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  15. In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  16. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16).

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  18. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  19. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  20. Referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  21. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  22. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1859.)

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  23. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  24. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  25. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  26. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  27. Re-referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

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  28. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S & T.M. Read second time and amended.

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  29. Referred to Com. on E.S & T.M.

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  30. From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

  31. Read first time. To print.

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