Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 — California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)
- Citation
- California Public Resources Code, added by SB 707 (2024)
- Jurisdiction
- US-CA
- Made by
- California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
- Instrument
- Statute
- Status
- In force
What it requires (4 obligations)
Producers of covered products must form and join a producer responsibility organisation (PRO) in order to comply with the chapter. The PRO's governing body must apply to the department by 1 January 2026, describing how it meets the requirements to be an approved PRO.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Apparel, textiles, home textiles, clothing accessories
- Markets
- US-CA
The duty is collective by design — a producer complies THROUGH a PRO rather than individually, which is what distinguishes an EPR scheme from a labelling or content rule. The department may approve additional PROs only after 1 January 2035, so for the first decade this is effectively a single organisation.
Quoted from Public Resources Code § 42984.4(a)(1), added by SB 707 (2024), Chapter 20.5 commencing with § 42984.
All producers of covered products must join the PRO approved by the department by 1 July 2026.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Apparel, textiles, home textiles, clothing accessories
- Markets
- US-CA
- Entry into force
- 2026-07-01
This is the date a producer plans against, and it is separate from the PRO's own 1 January 2026 application deadline. A producer waiting to see whether a PRO is approved before joining has six months between the two.
Quoted from § 42984.4(a)(3).
On approval of the PRO plan, or from 1 July 2030, whichever is sooner, a producer is subject to penalties unless it is a participant of the PRO and all covered products are accounted for in the plan. An entity that does not meet the definition of a producer before 1 January 2030 but comes to meet it afterwards must become a participant of the PRO and comply within 90 days.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Apparel, textiles, home textiles, clothing accessories
- Markets
- US-CA
- Entry into force
- 2030-07-01
Two conditions, both required: membership AND coverage of every product in the plan. A producer inside the PRO whose full range is not accounted for in the approved plan is still exposed. The 90-day rule catches a business that grows past a threshold or starts selling into California later.
Quoted from § 42984.4(c) and (d). NOT taken from the Legislative Counsel's Digest, which states the same rule in the conditional and is not operative text.
An administrative civil penalty of up to $10,000 per day may be imposed by the department on any person in violation of the chapter, rising to up to $50,000 per day where the violation is intentional or knowing.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Producers
- Products
- Apparel, textiles, home textiles, clothing accessories
- Markets
- US-CA
Per day, not per violation, which is what makes non-participation expensive rather than merely penalised. The intentional-or-knowing tier at five times the base rate is the reason the reporting duties under this chapter are given under penalty of perjury.
Quoted from § 42984.21(a)(1) and (a)(2).
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