US Congress House Bill 4236 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-0)
Status: Introduced on September 6 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-02-27 - Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Directs each regional office of the National Park Service (NPS) to establish a program to recycle and reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles within each NPS unit located in its region. NPS regional offices may eliminate the sale of water in disposable plastic bottles within their NPS units after having considered several specified factors. Where, prior to enactment of this bill, an NPS unit does not offer water for sale in disposable plastic bottles, the unit may continue that practice if it submits to the regional office an evaluation of those factors. NPS regional offices shall develop for each NPS unit a proactive visitor education strategy to address visitor expectations of water availability and explain the rationale for the program.

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]	Rep. Debra Haaland [D-NM]
Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]
Rep. Ruben Gallego [D-AZ]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Ed Case [D-HI]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR]	Rep. Albio Sires [D-NJ]	Rep. Christopher Pappas [D-NH]	Rep. Sean Casten [D-IL]
Rep. Nydia Velazquez [D-NY]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]	Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]
Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA]	Rep. Stephen Lynch [D-MA]	Rep. David Price [D-NC]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Rebecca Sherrill [D-NJ]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Lauren Underwood [D-IL]	Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Katie Porter [D-CA]	Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA]	Rep. Joseph Morelle [D-NY]
Rep. Tom Malinowski [D-NJ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-27	House	Subcommittee Hearings Held.
2019-09-09	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
2019-09-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2019-09-06	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4236/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr4236/BILLS-116hr4236ih.pdf