Virginia House Bill 1347 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-05 - Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Expanded polystyrene food service containers; prohibition; civil penalty. Prohibits the dispensing by a food vendor of prepared food to a customer in a single-use expanded polystyrene food service container, as defined in the bill. The bill requires certain chain restaurants to stop using such containers by July 1, 2023, and sets the date for compliance by all food vendors as July 1, 2025. The bill exempts certain institutions, including correctional facilities and public schools, from the definition of "food vendor" and provides a process by which a locality may grant consecutive one-year exemptions to individual food vendors on the basis of undue economic hardship. The bill provides a civil penalty of $50 for each day of violation, to be collected in a civil action brought by the Attorney General or the relevant locality. The penalties collected are to be deposited in the Litter Control and Recycling Fund or to the treasury of the relevant locality, as appropriate. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to post to its website information on compliance and the filing of complaints.

Expanded polystyrene food service containers; prohibition on dispensing, civil penalty.

Del. Kenneth Plum [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-05	House	Incorporated by Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-31	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB533-Carr) by voice vote
2020-01-15	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101623D

HB533 (Similar To) 2020-04-10 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1104)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	1414	(n/a)	See Bill Text
10	1	1422.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
10	1	1424.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1347
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1347+hil