AB 937: Plastic products: commercial agricultural mulch film: labeling: soil biodegradable.

Session Year: 2017-2018
House: Assembly
Latest Version Date: 2018-06-18

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Existing law prohibits the sale of a plastic product that is labeled as biodegradable, degradable, or decomposable, and prohibits implying that a plastic product will break down, fragment, biodegrade, or decompose in a landfill or other environment, unless the plastic product meets one of several specified standards relating to environmental marketing claims.

This bill would authorize the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt a specified standard for biodegradable mulch film plastic and would authorize the sale of commercial agricultural mulch film, as defined, labeled as soil biodegradable only if the commercial agricultural mulch film meets, and the director adopts, that specified standard.

The Health Care Decisions Law, among other things, provides for an individuals use of a request regarding resuscitative measures, which is a written document, signed by an individual with capacity or a legally recognized health care decisionmaker for the individual, and the individuals physician, that directs a health care provider regarding resuscitative measures for the individual. The law excludes a health care provider who honors a request regarding resuscitative measures from criminal prosecution, civil liability, discipline for unprofessional conduct, administrative sanction, or any other sanction, as a result of his or her reliance on the request, if specific conditions are met. The law provides, if the orders in an individuals request regarding resuscitative measures directly conflict with his or her individual health care instruction, as defined, that to the extent of the conflict, the most recent order or instruction is effective.This bill would provide that, to the extent of that conflict, the most recent order signed by the individual or instruction made by the individual is effective. The bill would deem a request regarding resuscitative measures signed by specified persons on behalf of the individual to be signed by the individual. The bill would also make technical conforming changes.

Discussed in Hearing