Maryland House Bill 229 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2017 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-15 - Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Prohibiting a person from selling in the State specified expanded polystyrene food service products or loose fill packaging on or after January 1, 2018; prohibiting specified food service businesses from selling or providing food in specified expanded polystyrene food service products on or after January 1, 2018; requiring a county health department to impose specified penalties for violations of the Act; requiring a county health department to notify the Department of the Environment specified violations; etc.

Environment - Polystyrene Food Service Products and Polystyrene Loose Fill Packaging - Prohibition on Sale

Del. Brooke Lierman [D]	Del. Charles Barkley [D]	Del. Alfred Carr [D]	Del. Diana Fennell [D]
Del. David Fraser-hidalgo [D]	Del. Barbara Frush [D]	Del. James Gilchrist [D]	Sen. Shelly Hettleman [D]
Del. Stephen Lafferty [D]	Del. Maggie McIntosh [D]	Del. Dan Morhaim [D]	Del. Shane Robinson [D]
Del. Samuel Rosenberg [D]	Del. Dana Stein [D]	Del. James Tarlau [D]	Sen. Mary Washington [D]
Sen. Chris West [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-15	House	Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m. (Environment and Transportation)
2017-01-20	House	First Reading Environment and Transportation and Economic Matters

Type	Source
Summary	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0229?ys=2017rs
Text	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0229f.pdf
Supplement	https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/fnotes/bil_0009/hb0229.pdf