Plastic bags; tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Summary
Plastic bag tax in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Imposes a five-cent per bag tax on plastic bags provided to customers by certain retailers in localities located wholly within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and directs revenues to be used to support the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan. The bill also allows every retailer that collects the tax to retain one cent of every five cents collected. This bill was incorporated into SB 11.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2019
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Nov 18, 2019
Last action Jan 30, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
1
Committee
2
Jan 8, 2020
Upper · Passed
Moved from Finance to Finance and Appropriations due to a change of the committee name
upper
Nov 18, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations
upper
Nov 18, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100599D
upper
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
CP
Chap Petersen
DDemocratic
Co
Jennifer Boysko
DDemocratic
Co
JM
Joe Morrissey
DDemocratic
Co
Kaye Kory
DDemocratic
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