Bill Text: IA HF272 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to beverage container refund value and handling fee amounts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-14 - Subcommittee: Klein, Lensing and Wheeler. H.J. 305. [HF272 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF272-Introduced.html

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House File 272 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  MASCHER, STAED,
                                     LENSING, and WINCKLER

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to beverage container refund value and handling
  2    fee amounts.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455C.2, Code 2017, is amended to read as
  1  2 follows:
  1  3    455C.2  Refund values.
  1  4    1.  A refund value of not less than five ten cents shall
  1  5 be paid by the consumer on each beverage container sold in
  1  6 this state by a dealer for consumption off the premises.
  1  7 Upon return of the empty beverage container upon which a
  1  8 refund value has been paid to the dealer or person operating
  1  9 a redemption center and acceptance of the empty beverage
  1 10 container by the dealer or person operating a redemption
  1 11 center, the dealer or person operating a redemption center
  1 12 shall return the amount of the refund value to the consumer.
  1 13    2.  In addition to the refund value provided in subsection
  1 14 1 of this section, a dealer, or person operating a redemption
  1 15 center who redeems empty beverage containers or a dealer agent
  1 16 shall be reimbursed by the distributor required to accept
  1 17 the empty beverage containers an amount which is one cent
  1 18  three cents per container. A dealer, dealer agent, or person
  1 19 operating a redemption center may compact empty metal beverage
  1 20 containers with the approval of the distributor required to
  1 21 accept the containers.
  1 22    Sec. 2.  Section 455C.5, subsection 3, Code 2017, is amended
  1 23 to read as follows:
  1 24    3.  The provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of this section do
  1 25 not apply to a refillable glass beverage container which has
  1 26 a brand name permanently marked on it and which has a refund
  1 27 value of not less than five ten cents, to any other refillable
  1 28 beverage container which has a refund value of not less than
  1 29 five ten cents and which is exempted by the director under
  1 30 rules adopted by the commission, or to a beverage container
  1 31 sold aboard a commercial airliner or passenger train for
  1 32 consumption on the premises.
  1 33                           EXPLANATION
  1 34 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 35 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  2  1 This bill increases the refund value paid by and returned
  2  2 to consumers for beverage containers from 5 cents to 10 cents.
  2  3 The bill modifies corresponding language regarding the refund
  2  4 value printed on certain beverage containers.
  2  5    The bill also increases the reimbursement amount received by
  2  6 a dealer or person operating a redemption center who redeems
  2  7 empty beverage containers from 1 cent per container to 3 cents
  2  8 per container. The reimbursement amount, commonly referred
  2  9 to as a handling fee, is paid by the distributor who collects
  2 10 the beverage containers from the dealer or person operating a
  2 11 redemption center.
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