Bill Text: WV HB2599 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establish fee Retailers to Pay Wholesalers for purchase of plastic bags
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-18 - To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development [HB2599 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB2599-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2599
By Delegate Doyle
[Introduced February 18, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §22-15-24, relating to establishing a fee that wholesalers must pay the West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board for each plastic bag supplied to retailers for consumer purchases.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 15. Solid waste management act.
§22-15-24. Fee paid by wholesalers for each plastic bag supplied to retailers.
Beginning on July 1, 2021, all wholesalers that supply plastic bags to retailers for consumer purchases shall pay $0.05 to the West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board for each plastic bag supplied to retailers.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish a fee that wholesalers must pay the West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board for the cost of plastic bags used by retailers for consumer purchases.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
