Bill Title: Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A07364 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Patricia Fahy [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-046	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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