Delaware Senate Bill 208 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2020 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-01-29 - Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

The intent of this Act is to reduce the amount of waste that ends up in the environment and to raise awareness of the need to properly dispose of balloons. To that end, this Act imposes a civil penalty for the violation of intentionally releasing 5 or more balloons filled with air or lighter-than-air gases, to prevent litter which blights our communities and environment and causes harm to wildlife and marine animals. The release of multiple balloons at 1 time is a single offense under this Act. This Act also establishes that intentionally releasing 1 to 4 balloons at 1 time is littering.

An Act To Amend Title 16 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Delaware Litter Control Law.

Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Rep. Debra Heffernan [D]	Sen. Catherine Cloutier [R]	Sen. Harris McDowell [D]
Sen. David Sokola [D]	Sen. Laura Sturgeon [D]	Sen. Bryan Townsend [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Gerald Brady [D]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-29		Reported Out of Committee (Health & Social Services) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits
2020-01-23		Introduced and Assigned to Health & Social Services Committee in Senate

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Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=47985
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=47985&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB208