PUBLIC CONTRACT CODE
SECTION 12300-12306

    12300.  Unless otherwise provided, this chapter shall apply to all
    purchases made on behalf of the Legislature, whether made by the
    Senate Committee on Rules, the Assembly Committee on Rules, the Joint
    Rules Committee, or any other agency of the Legislature.

    12301.  The following definitions govern the interpretation of this
    chapter:
       (a) "Department" means the Department of General Services.
       (b) "Board" means the California Integrated Waste Management
    Board, as defined pursuant to Section 40110 of the Public Resources
    Code.
       (c) "Recycled paper product" means all paper and woodpulp products
    containing postconsumer and secondary materials.  "Postconsumer
    material" means a finished material that would normally be disposed
    of as a solid waste, having completed its life cycle as a consumer
    item.  "Secondary material" means fragments of finished products or
    finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a
    virgin resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes
    postconsumer material, but does not include fibrous waste generated
    during the manufacturing process such as fibers recovered from
    wastewater or trimmings of paper machine rolls (mill broke), wood
    slabs, chips, sawdust, or other wood residue from a manufacturing
    process.  "Recycled paper product" means a paper product with not
    less than 50 percent, by fiber weight, consisting of secondary and
    postconsumer material with not less than 10 percent of fiber weight
    consisting of postconsumer material.
       For high speed copier paper, offset paper, forms bond, computer
    printout paper, carbonless paper, file folders, white wove envelopes,
    and for other uncoated printing and writing papers, such as writing
    and office paper, book paper, cotton fiber paper containing 25 to 75
    percent cotton fiber, and cover stock, the minimum content standard
    shall be no less than 20 percent of fiber weight of postconsumer
    materials beginning December 31, 1994.  The minimum content standard
    shall be increased to 30 percent of fiber weight of postconsumer
    materials beginning on December 31, 1998.
       (d) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), "recycled product"
    means all materials, goods, and supplies, excluding paper products,
    no less than 50 percent of the total weight of which consists of
    secondary and postconsumer material with not less than 10 percent of
    its total weight consisting of postconsumer material.  A recycled
    product shall include any product that could have been disposed of as
    solid waste having completed its life cycle as a consumer item, but
    otherwise is refurbished for reuse without substantial alteration of
    its form.  "Postconsumer material" means a finished material that
    would have been disposed of as a solid waste, having completed its
    life cycle as a consumer item, and does not include manufacturing
    wastes.  "Secondary material" means fragments of finished products or
    finished products of a manufacturing process, which has converted a
    resource into a commodity of real economic value, and includes
    postconsumer material, but does not include excess virgin resources
    of the manufacturing process.
       (2) "Recycled product" also means other flat rolled steel products
    no less than 25 percent of the total weight of which consists of
    secondary and postconsumer material, with not less than 10 percent of
    total weight consisting of postconsumer material.  Products made
    with flat rolled steel meeting these content percentages include, but
    are not limited to, automobiles, cans, appliances, and office
    furniture and supplies.

    12305.  This chapter applies to the procurement and purchase of the
    following materials, goods, and supplies, or products containing the
    following recycled resources, and meeting the specified content
    requirements pursuant to either subdivision (c) or (d) of Section
    12301, whichever is applicable:
       (a) Paper products, that include, but are not limited to, fine
    grades of paper, corrugated boxes, newsprint, tissue, and toweling.
       (b) Glass.
       (c) Oil.
       (d) Plastic.
       (e) Solvents and paint, including water-based paint.
       (f) Tires.
       (g) Steel.
       (h) Antifreeze.

    12305.5.  If a recycled product costs more than the same product
    made with virgin material, the Legislature shall purchase fewer of
    those more costly products or apply cost savings, if any, gained from
    buying other recycled products towards the purchase of those more
    costly products.

    12306.  This chapter does not apply to the procurement and purchase
    of asphalt concrete and portland cement concrete pavement.