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2020 SESSION
SB 198 Disposable plastic shopping bags; local option.
Introduced by: Mamie E. Locke | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Disposable plastic shopping bags; local option. Allows any locality by ordinance to prohibit the distribution, sale, or offer for sale of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers. The bill exempts from any such prohibition reusable bags of a certain thickness, bags that are used to carry certain products, such as ice cream or newspapers, and garbage bags that are sold in multiples. This bill was incorporated into SB 11.
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HISTORY
- 12/29/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101662D
- 12/29/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 01/20/20 Senate: Rereferred from Local Government (14-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/20 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/30/20 Senate: Incorporated by Finance and Appropriations (SB11-Ebbin) (16-Y 0-N)