Virginia Senate Bill 970 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-01-16 - Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 9-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [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 is punishable by fines of $250, $500, and $1,000 for the first, second, and third or subsequent offenses, respectively.

Paper and plastic bags; imposes fee of $0.05 on those used by purchasers to carry tangible property.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2013-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 9-N) (Y: 5 N: 9 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-16	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 9-N)
2013-01-16	Senate	Committee substitute printed to Web only 13104101D-S1
2013-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2013-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13101745D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	1742	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	1745	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+sum+SB970
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB970+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+ful+SB970S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?131+vot+S05V0060+SB0970