Section 14556.


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  • (a) Not less than once every three months, the department shall provide to the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (b), at a minimum, all of the following information for the current fiscal year and the budget year:

    (1) An updated fund condition statement that includes the revenues, transfers, and expenditures in to and out of the fund.

    (2) The recycling rate, by beverage container material type, that is inferred using the revenues.

    (3) An explanation of significant changes to the fund condition statement from the prior report and significant changes to the methodology used for forecasting the fund condition statement.

    (4) Projected sales, which include all actual data available since the last reporting period, by beverage container material type and size, and actual or projected returns, which include all actual data available since the last reporting period, by beverage container material type, including an explanation in any case where the actual returns are more than 100 percent of actual sales.

    (5) Projected handling fee payments, which include all actual data available since the last reporting period, the per beverage container handling fee amount, and the number of beverage containers projected to be eligible for a handling fee payment.

    (6) Projected processing payments, which include all actual data available since the last reporting period, by beverage container material type, showing the total processing fee offsets, processing fees, and processing payments for each type of beverage container material.

    (7) Total grants awarded during the current fiscal year.

    (b) Notwithstanding Section 9795 of the Government Code, not less than once every three months, the department shall provide a written copy of the information required in subdivision (a) to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the Legislature and shall also post the most recent information required in subdivision (a) on the department's Internet Web site.

    (c) The department shall review the information included in the fund condition statement frequently, but not less than once every three months, to determine if adequate funds exist to pay the disbursements required pursuant to this division and to make the determinations required pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14581.

(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 718, Sec. 12. Effective October 19, 2010.)