Bill Text: CA AR51 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relative to Compost Awareness Week.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 51-21-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-19 - Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 4866.). [AR51 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AR51-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: HR 51	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 19, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Quirk
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Achadjian,   Alejo,   Travis Allen,  
Arambula,   Atkins,   Baker,   Bloom,
  Bonilla,   Bonta,  Brown,  
Burke,   Calderon,   Campos,   Chau, 
 Chávez,   Chiu,   Chu,   Cooley,
  Cooper,   Dababneh,   Dahle,  
Daly,   Dodd,   Eggman,   Frazier, 
 Gallagher,   Cristina Garcia,   Eduardo
Garcia,   Gatto,   Gipson,   Gomez, 
 Gonzalez,   Gordon,   Gray,   Grove,
  Hadley,   Harper,   Roger Hernández,
  Holden,   Irwin,   Jones,  
Jones-Sawyer,   Kim,   Lackey,   Levine,
  Linder,   Lopez,   Low,  
Maienschein,   Mayes,   Medina,  
Melendez,   Mullin,   Nazarian,  
Obernolte,   O'Donnell,   Olsen,  
Patterson,   Rendon,   Ridley-Thomas,  
Rodriguez,   Salas,   Santiago,  
Steinorth,   Mark Stone,   Thurmond,  
Ting,   Wagner,   Waldron,   Weber, 
 Wilk,   and Wood   ) 

                        MAY 2, 2016

   Relative to Compost Awareness Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
             HOUSE OR SENATE RESOLUTIONS DO NOT CONTAIN A DIGEST



   WHEREAS, Composting is an effective form of waste reduction,
reuse, and recycling, and since organic materials make up
approximately 30 percent of the material going to landfills,
composting is becoming one of the primary methods communities use to
reach waste diversion goals and create sustainable communities; and
   WHEREAS, Chapter 719 of the Statutes of 2014 phased out diversion
credits for organic alternative daily cover in landfills and Chapter
727 of the Statutes of 2014 statutorily mandated commercial recycling
of organics; and
   WHEREAS, Section 42649.87 of the Public Resources Code requires
the California Environmental Protection Agency, in coordination with
the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the State Water
Resources Control Board, the State Air Resources Board, and the
Department of Food and Agriculture, to "develop and implement
policies to aid in diverting organic waste from landfills by
promoting the use of agricultural, forestry, and urban organic waste
as a feedstock for composting and by promoting the appropriate use of
that compost throughout the state"; and
   WHEREAS, Materials, including yard trimmings, vegetable cuttings,
biosolids, food scraps, manures, and hay shavings, have been
composted and converted into a beneficial product known as compost;
and
   WHEREAS, Returning organic resources to the soil reduces water
consumption by over 30 percent on all soil types, conserves water
during extreme drought or flooding conditions, decreases dependence
on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and decreases erosion and
nonpoint source pollution; and
   WHEREAS, Composting is recognized by the State Air Resources Board
as an important tool to sequester massive amounts of carbon in
California's soils to help immediately reverse global warming; and
   WHEREAS, Communities, through their local governments, highway
departments, soil conservation services, and public works
professionals, can have significant impact on clean water, soil,
climate change, and landfill diversion by using compost for public
works projects; and
   WHEREAS, International Compost Awareness Week is a multimedia
publicity and educational initiative to showcase compost production
and demonstrate compost use; and
   WHEREAS, Composting creates green jobs and infrastructure for
cities and states that implement composting programs; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Composting Council, Canada, and the
United Kingdom have declared the first week of May to be the annual
International Composting Awareness Week; and
   WHEREAS, The Association of Compost Producers is the California
State Chapter of the United States Composting Council and manages
International Composting Awareness Week in California; and
   WHEREAS, The theme of 2016, "Compost: the Soil and Water
Connection," is a great way to get the message out regarding compost
and its many benefits to communities and property owners; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That the week
of May 1, 2016, through May 7, 2016, is hereby designated as Compost
Awareness Week; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.