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1999 SESSION

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SB 1335 Redeemable beverage containers.

Introduced by: Madison E. Marye | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Redeemable beverage containers. Requires that all beverage containers sold in Virginia have a redemption value of at least ten cents. Dealers and redemption centers are required to pay redeemers who return such containers to them the redemption value printed on the container. Distributors are required to pick up these redeemed containers from dealers and redemption centers and pay them the redemption value printed on each container plus a handling fee of two cents per container. By March 1, 2001, and by March 1 of each year thereafter, distributors are required to (i) file annual reports with the Department of Taxation indicating the total value of redemption fees collected and redemptions paid out during the previous calendar year and (ii) forward to the Department of Taxation that amount of money by which redemption fees collected exceeded redemptions paid out. After deducting its expenses incurred in administering the reporting and collecting procedures of this program, the Department of Taxation is required to pay the remaining revenues collected into the state treasury to the credit of the newly established Unredeemed Container Fund, which will be administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. Ninety percent of the revenues remaining in the Unredeemed Container Fund are to be released annually and placed in the newly established Virginia Recycling Trust Fund, which is also to be administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. The remaining ten percent of the revenues are to be released annually and credited to the Game Protection Fund. Moneys placed in the Virginia Recycling Trust Fund are to be expended by the Department of Environmental Quality for purposes of improving waste management and recycling efforts in the Commonwealth, and may be paid out in the form of direct or matching grants to localities for their waste management and recycling programs. Violations of the bill’s provisions are punishable by civil penalties of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000. All civil penalties collected are to be placed in the Virginia Recycling Trust Fund. The provisions of the bill become effective January 1, 2000.


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