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California 20252026

SB 1341

Beverage containers: wine and distilled spirits: processing fees.

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

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill, appropriation
Subjects
Beveragecontainers, processingfees, wineanddistilledspirits
Introduced / first action
2026-02-20 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a beverage manufacturer to pay to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a processing fee for each beverage container, as defined, sold or transferred in this state. The act requires the department to deposit the fee into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. The act requires the department to pay processing payments to processors and recycling centers from the fund, as specified. The act requires the processing payment to be at least equal to the difference between the scrap value of the beverage containers and the sum of certain actual operational costs for certified recycling centers and a reasonable financial return for recycling centers, as specified. The act requires the processing fee to be 65% of the processing payment, except as specified. This bill would limit the processing fee for bag in box beverage containers to not more than $0.12 per container sold or offered for sale. The bill would define "bag in box" for purposes of the bill to mean a container for certain alcoholic beverages that has an interior flexible bag with a valve to dispense a beverage and a rigid cardboard or corrugated paper box designed to contain the bag, as provided. The bill would authorize the department to provide a credit toward the 2027 processing fees to beverage producers who paid the 2026 processing fee, as provided. If the amount needed to make processing payments to recyclers for bag in box beverage containers exceeds the amount of processing fee revenue available, the bill would authorize the department to expend funds to pay the processing payments in full, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031. By expanding the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation.

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Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  2. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  3. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  4. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6498.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  5. Ordered to third reading.

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  6. Read third time and amended.

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  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 13).

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  10. Assembly Rule 63 suspended.

  11. August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

  12. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  13. June 22 hearing postponed by committee.

  14. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  15. Referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  16. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  17. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4412.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  18. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  19. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  20. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4273.) (May 14).

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  21. Set for hearing May 14.

  22. May 11 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  23. Set for hearing May 11.

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

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  25. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4009.) (April 22).

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  26. Set for hearing April 22.

  27. Referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  28. Read first time.

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  29. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  30. Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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