Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Quality

We need an author, though.

Hey, you're one of the authors. Should I just do it? Yeah.

All right, let me.

Let's start as a sub.

Call the 60 seconds eq. As a Subcommitee, we will pass the gavel to the Vice Chair, and then I could present Senator Allen's here.

You may proceed.

Okay, let's do it. Thank you, Mister chair, for your indulgence and an honor to present from the dais. So SB 1143. Obviously we were working on it related to household hazardous waste. The Bill is really focusing in on paint care now, and we will be working further on the broader household hazardous waste issues next year.

But as it pause for a second.

We could get a roll call, establish a quorum.

[Roll call]

We have a quorum. You may proceed. All right, so this Bill would expand the state's existing successful paint stewardship program to all paint and paint related products. If properly managed, unused paint and similar paint related products can be hazardous to public health and the environment.

Thank you.

California already has a successful producer responsibility program for paint as most folks here know. It's called paint care. It manages leftover architectural paint through education and convenient collection locations. Once collected, leftover paint can largely be diverted from landfills, can be reused, recycled.

Now, aerosol coatings were added to the program just last year, but there are certain related products such as automotive refinish paint, marine and anti fouling paints, surface adhesives that are still not included as of today. Now, calorie cycle will already be revising their regulations for the program due to the addition of aerosols.

And there's broad industry support for including these other related products under one program to improve implementation for the manufacturers. So this Bill will expand paint care to all the remaining paint and paint related products, align the implementation timelines for the newly added product categories to create consistency.

The expansion will help protect the environment from improperly disposed of material, improve convenience for consumers, reduce financial and logistical burdens to local governments by managing paint and allied products in a single program. And it's with all of that I respect for asking about. Do you have any witnesses? I think we do. Jordan from our stewardship action council.

A virus officer and strong supporter. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you Mister chair Members Lauren De Valencia, representing the American Coatings Association, who is the trade Association of Paint and Coatings manufacturers who created paint care. Very excited for this expansion and really appreciate all the work. Thank you.

Thank you. Any others wishing to testify in support, seeing none. Do we have any opposition here today? Anyone wishes to speak in opposition of 1143? Seeing none, we will close public comment, bring it back for close.

Mister Fasser. And I vote thank you to all the folks on the industry side and paint care who worked with us on this, and of course, our incredible staff. Entertain a motion.

Thank you. Have a motion. Please call the roll.

SB 1143. The motion is that the Assembly amendments be concurred in. Senators Allen? Aye. Allen, aye. Dahle? Dahle. Aye. Gonzalez. Gonzalez. Aye. Hurtado, Minjavar, Wynn, win no. Skinner, three to one.

All right, we'll hold the roll open for that. Senator Newman, you may approach the bench. I just want to say Senator Daly so believes in government, increasing government efficiency, that he had me present the Bill from here so as not to have to. No, it was for me, too. But this is the new.

I thought it was like when you go into your home and your parents are fighting and you think maybe you shouldn't go in.

Well, thankfully, that was. We were all, the chair and the Vice Chair were in agreement. So let's now hear from you, Senator Newman, who's here to present SB 707.

Mister chair and members, thank you for the opportunity to present the amended version of SB 707, which will establish a first-in-the-nation extended producer responsibility program in California for clothing and household textiles.

We took multiple rounds of amendments in the Assembly as a result of a very deliberate, intensive, consultative, two-year stakeholder engagement process, and along the way also incorporated technical feedback from CalRecycle. Recent amendments addressed the responsibilities of online marketplaces while also making various technical and clarifying changes. On the basis of these amendments, we've removed all opposition.

California Chamber of Commerce, the American Apparel and Footwear Association removed their opposition. This bill now has over 150 organizations in support, including well-known brands like H&M and IKEA, and no registered opposition. And I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Yes, sir.

Thank you, Mister chair and members. Jason Schmelzer, here on behalf of CPSC, sponsor of the bill, also here on behalf of Alameda Stop Waste, Western Placer Waste Management Authority, and SWANA, all in support of the bill. Just want to add that I'm really proud of the process and the resulting consensus.

I want to thank your staff for all the work that they've helped on the bill and everybody else that's been here. So thank you.

Thank you, other folks who want to weigh in, in support.

Mister Chair, Dylan Elliott on behalf of the city and County of San Francisco, in support.

Thank you.

Jordan Wells, National Stewardship Action Council. Strong support. Thank you.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair. Adam Regely on behalf of the California Chamber of Commerce, we removed all opposition. We really want to thank the author and stakeholders for a process that came together and, thank you.

Mister chair and members of the committee, Marc Aprea on behalf of Republic Services in support of the measure.

Thank you, Mark. Okay, anyone else? Opposition, concerns about the bill? Nope. Okay, let's bring it back to the committee, see if folks have questions, thoughts, comments. Moved by Senator Gonzalez. No. Seeing no questions or comments. We'll entertain a motion. Yeah. Okay, we got a motion. We'll entertain a vote. Let's have. Let's call the vote.

SB 707. The motion is that the Assembly amendments be concurred in. [Roll Call] Three to two.

Okay, that's three to two. So we need Caroline or Melissa to come on down. I know Melissa's over on the... Sorry. Caroline's over on the Assembly side. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Let's reopen the roll for the first bill for Senator Skinner.

SB 1143. The current vote is three to one, with the Chair and the Vice Chair voting aye. [Roll Call]

Okay.

Okay. So let's open the roll for both, and then we will likely adjourn because our colleague, while she has expressed her support for both the bills, is busily working her bills on the Assembly side. So let's call the roll first on item one.

SB 707. The motion is that the Assembly amendments be concurred in. The current vote is three to two, with the Chair voting aye, the Vice Chair voting no. [Roll Call]

You're gonna wait for my bill? You don't wanna hear it? Yeah. All right. Okay. Gosh. This is the kind of... This is the sort of feckless friendship we have, I suppose. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Okay. All right. Now let's do the second one.

SB 1143. The motion that the Assembly amendments be concurred, and the current vote is four to one, with the Chair and the Vice Chair voting aye. [Roll Call] Five to one.

Great. Five to one. So you're... You're not a sunshine patriot? Yeah. Okay, well, thank you. Thank you. We look forward to the next hearing, which will be when? Saturday. Well, hopefully, I have a lot before midnight on Saturday. Do we know? When is it? What's your best guess? Okay. 6:00 PM on Saturday. We'll see you back. Thank you. We'll gavel down.