AB 2048 was was recently passed and signed by Governor Newsom. The law requires: local and state public agencies to post to their public website all franchise agreements with solid waste and recycling haulers, local and state agencies to provide a direct hyperlink to the online agreements to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), and CalRecycle to create and maintain a public database of public agency franchise agreements with the hyperlinks provided
AB 2048 would not apply to public agencies that provide all solid waste or recycling collection services with their own employees.