Bill Text - SB410 (2016)

Relative to an optional ban on plastic bags.


Revision: Jan. 13, 2016, midnight

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SB 410  - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

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\t06/09

 

SENATE BILL\t410

 

AN ACT\trelative to an optional ban on plastic bags.

 

SPONSORS:\tSen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. C. Christensen, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE:\tPublic And Municipal Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

\tThis bill permits towns to adopt bylaws to regulate the distribution of certain plastic bags.

 

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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.

\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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\t06/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT\trelative to an optional ban on plastic bags.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

\t1  New Subparagraph; Powers and Duties of Towns; Power to Make Bylaws.  Amend RSA 31:39, I by inserting after subparagraph (p) the following new subparagraph:

\t\t\t(q)  Prohibiting the distribution of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers.

\t2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.