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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas requires beverage producers to form recycling consortium and establish container refund program by 2028
Last action · May 15, 2025: Placed on General State CalendarSponsors: John Lujan and 12 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas establishes a recycling refund program requiring beverage producers to form a nonprofit consortium, collect container deposits, and achieve a 75 percent recycling rate by January 1, 2035. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality must adopt implementation rules by September 1, 2026, and producers must comply with consortium requirements starting January 1, 2028.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Beverage producers
Must form and participate in the recycling consortium, pay fees, comply with container labeling standards, and meet recycling rate targets.
Consumers
Pay deposits on beverage containers at retail purchase and receive refund payments upon returning empty containers to redemption centers.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Must adopt implementation rules by September 1, 2026, oversee recycling rates, and audit the consortium.
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Authorized to conduct financial audits of the refund program, require financial reserves, and hold remitted trust funds.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
What containers are excluded from the beverage container recycling program?
What happens if the 75 percent recycling rate target is missed?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the House floor.
Procedural history
14 actions- May 15, 2025HousePlaced on General State Calendar
- May 13, 2025HouseConsidered in Calendars
- May 12, 2025HouseCommittee report sent to Calendars
- May 12, 2025HouseCommittee report distributed
- May 12, 2025HouseComte report filed with Committee Coordinator
- May 2, 2025HouseCommitteeReported favorably w/o amendment(s)
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- May 2, 2025HouseConsidered in formal meeting
- Apr 24, 2025HouseLeft pending in committee
- Apr 24, 2025HouseTestimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- Apr 24, 2025HouseConsidered in public hearing
- Apr 24, 2025HouseScheduled for public hearing on . . .
- Mar 14, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Environmental Regulation
- Mar 14, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Jan 23, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Sponsors
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Discoveries
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Establishment of Mandatory Container Deposit System
Texas is introducing a statewide deposit-refund system managed by a producer consortium with a 75 percent recycling target by 2035.
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Sources
capitol.texas.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 80)
- Controversy65Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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