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CalRecycle uses the data to measure and track California’s progress toward achieving the legislatively mandated goal of 75 percent statewide recycling by the year 2020. AB 901 would also strengthen CalRecycle’s fraud enforcement authority by allowing the state to file civil penalties against facilities that falsify or fail to submit timely, complete or accurate waste flow information, according to Gordon’s office.

AB 901 would allow CalRecycle to impose civil penalties of $500 to $10,000 per day on any person who fails to submit information; intentionally submits false information; or prohibits CalRecycle from inspecting records. CalRecycle may pursue the fines through a civil action, or impose fines administratively, according to Gordon’s office.

AB 901 takes effect Jan. 1.

• Brown signed Senate Bill 21, authored by state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, Saturday. The bill increases transparency within the Political Reform Act by requiring non-profits that pay for elected official travel to disclose to the FPPC the names of the donors responsible for funding the travel, according to Hill’s office.

The bill applies to nonprofits that spend a large portion of their budgets on conferences and travel. Currently these nonprofits don’t have to disclose the source of travel funding, preventing the public from knowing who was behind the gift to the elected official. SB 21 would also require elected officials to disclose to the FPPC the destination of their travel if it was a gift, according to Hill’s office.