Bill Title: Establishes a framework for eliminating the use of plastic bags by certain stores, with limited exceptions; includes a requirement for certain stores to supply reuseable or recycled paper bags to recipients of SNAP and WIC benefits at no cost; establishes a "reuseable grocery bag fund".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A05792 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Felix Ortiz [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-072	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Walter Mosley [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-057	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jose Rivera [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Fred Thiele [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-001	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-066	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alfred Taylor [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-071	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Charles Lavine [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Anthony D'Urso [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-016	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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