Bill Text: NJ S2819 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Repeals fee on single-use carryout bags.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-07-01 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S2819 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-S2819-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 2819

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED JULY 1, 2018

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  JOSEPH PENNACCHIO

District 26 (Essex, Morris and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Repeals fee on single-use carryout bags. 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

 

An Act concerning fees on single-use carryout bags and repealing P.L.    , c.   (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 3267 of 2018). 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    P.L.    , c.   (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 3267 of 2018) is repealed.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would repeal the law that imposes a five-cent fee on single-use carryout bags provided to customers by certain stores.