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2021 SESSION
HB 1902 Expanded polystyrene food service containers; prohibition, civil penalty.
Introduced by: Betsy B. Carr | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Expanded polystyrene food service containers; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the dispensing by a food vendor of prepared food to a customer in a single-use expanded polystyrene food service container, as defined in the bill. The bill requires certain chain restaurants to stop using such containers by July 1, 2023, and sets the date for compliance by all food vendors as July 1, 2025. The bill exempts nonprofit organizations from the definition of "food vendor" and provides a process by which a locality may grant consecutive one-year exemptions to individual food vendors on the basis of undue economic hardship. The bill provides a civil penalty of not more than $50 for each day of violation, to be collected in a civil action brought by the Attorney General or the relevant locality. The penalties collected are to be deposited in the Litter Control and Recycling Fund or to the treasury of the relevant locality, as appropriate. A portion of the penalties deposited in the Fund are to be used for public information campaigns to discourage the sale and use of expanded polystyrene products. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to post to its website information on compliance and the filing of complaints. This bill is a reenactment of Chapter 1104 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020.
FULL TEXT
- 01/08/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100816D pdf | impact statement
- 01/18/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21100816D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/08/21 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100816D
- 01/08/21 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/13/21 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (15-Y 7-N)
- 01/15/21 House: Read first time
- 01/18/21 House: Read second time
- 01/18/21 House: Amendment by Delegate Carr agreed to
- 01/18/21 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1902E
- 01/18/21 House: Printed as engrossed 21100816D-E
- 01/19/21 House: Read third time and passed House (58-Y 40-N)
- 01/19/21 House: VOTE: Passage (58-Y 40-N)
- 01/20/21 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/20/21 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources
- 02/05/21 Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)