Newsom Vetoes SB 1180; AB 2253 Still Undecided

Governor Newsom vetoed SB 1180 (Allen) on September 20, 2026. It would have governed how money in the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund may be spent: prioritizing the communities most burdened by plastic pollution, capping grantee indirect costs, widening who may receive grants, and requiring a published annual expenditure list. The fund is unaffected, and the PRO’s duty to remit $500 million a year to it from 2027 through 2037 comes from SB 54, not this bill.

AB 2253, which would restrict credit-based mass balance accounting behind recycled content claims from January 1, 2030, was presented to the Governor on September 10 and was still undecided on September 20. He has until September 30.

What this means for you: nothing changes today. The mitigation surcharge you pay through the PRO is untouched, because SB 1180 governed spending out of the fund rather than payments into it. Watch AB 2253 this month only if you make recycled content claims. Source: Office of the Governor of California, legislative update (September 20, 2026).