Virginia House Bill 2047 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - House: Left in Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Paper and plastic bag fee. Imposes a fee of $0.05 on paper and plastic bags used by purchasers to carry tangible personal property from the place of purchase. Durable, reusable plastic bags and bags used for ice cream, meat, fish, poultry, leftover restaurant food, newspapers, dry cleaning and prescription drugs are exempt from the fee. Retailers are allowed to retain $0.01 of the $0.05 fee or $0.02 if the retailer has a customer bag credit program. The revenues raised by the fee will be deposited in the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund. Failure to collect and remit the fee will result in fines of $250, $500, and $1,000 for the first, second, third and thereafter offenses.

Virginia Waterways Clean Up and Consumer Choice Act; paper and plastic bag fee.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		House: Left in Finance
2011-01-26		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2011-01-17		House: Assigned Finance sub: #1
2011-01-11		House: Referred to Committee on Finance
2011-01-11		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11100789D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	1734	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1735	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1736	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1737	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+HB2047
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+HB2047+hil