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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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.