Bill Text: NH SB410 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to an optional ban on plastic bags.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - Inexpedient to Legislate, Division Vote. 12Y-8N, Motion Adopted === BILL KILLED ===; 03/03/2016; Senate Journal 7 [SB410 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-SB410-Introduced.html
SB 410 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
16-2847
06/09
SENATE BILL 410
AN ACT relative to an optional ban on plastic bags.
SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. C. Christensen, Hills. 21
COMMITTEE: Public And Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits towns to adopt bylaws to regulate the distribution of certain plastic bags.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2847
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to an optional ban on plastic bags.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 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:
(q) Prohibiting the distribution of disposable plastic shopping bags to consumers.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
