Bill Text: IA SF2149 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the refund value on beverage containers payable to consumers by redemption centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-10 - Subcommittee, Dearden, Brase, and Rozenboom. S.J. 204. [SF2149 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2149-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2149 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  SEGEBART

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the refund value on beverage containers
  2    payable to consumers by redemption centers.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455C.2, subsection 1, Code 2016, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  A refund value of not less than five cents shall be paid
  1  4 by the consumer on each beverage container sold in this state
  1  5 by a dealer for consumption off the premises. Upon return of
  1  6 the empty beverage container upon which a refund value has been
  1  7 paid to the dealer or person operating a redemption center
  1  8 and acceptance of the empty beverage container by the dealer
  1  9 or person operating a redemption center, the dealer or shall
  1 10 return the full amount of the refund value to the consumer
  1 11 and the person operating a redemption center shall return
  1 12 either four cents or the full amount of the refund value to the
  1 13 consumer.
  1 14                           EXPLANATION
  1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 17    Under current law, dealers or persons operating redemption
  1 18 centers must return to a consumer the full refund value of 5
  1 19 cents per beverage container upon the return of a container
  1 20 by a consumer. This bill allows persons operating redemption
  1 21 centers to return 4 cents per container to a consumer upon the
  1 22 return of a container. A "dealer" is defined in Code section
  1 23 455C.1 as any person who engages in the sale of beverages in
  1 24 beverage containers to a consumer.
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