AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY (Prohibits retail sales establishments from making available to their customers, plastic checkout bags, or plastic water bottles or expanded polystyrene disposable food containers at the point of sale.)
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2017
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Mar 17, 2017
Last action Jun 21, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Jun 21, 2017
Legislature · Passed
06/21/2017 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
legislature
Mar 17, 2017
Committee
03/17/2017 Introduced, referred to House Environment and Natural Resources
legislature
5 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Charlene Lima
DDemocratic
P
DM
Dennis M. Canario
DDemocratic
P
Gregg Amore
DDemocratic
P
Jay Edwards
DDemocratic
P
Katie Kazarian
DDemocratic
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