BOARD AGENDA MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT:
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Recommended Position on Proposition 67 - Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Adopt a position of "Support" on Proposition 67 - Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum.
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SUMMARY:
Proposition 67 - Plastic Bag Ban Veto Referendum
Recommended Position: Support
In 2014 the Legislature passed and the Governor signed SB 270 (Padilla), which banned the use of single-use plastic carry out bags. However that existing law is currently inoperative, due to Proposition 67 which places the law up for a referendum vote. If Proposition 67 is approved by the voters, existing law would prohibit stores that have a specified amount of sales in dollars or at least 10,000 square feet of retail floor space from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer. That law would also prohibit those stores from selling or distributing a recycled paper bag at the point of sale unless the store makes that bag available for purchase for not less than $0.10 and would allow those stores to distribute compostable bags at the point of sale only in jurisdictions that meet specified requirements and at a cost of not less than $0.10.
This same law would additionally impose these prohibitions and requirements on convenience food stores, foodmarts, and entities that are engaged in the sale of a limited line of goods, or goods intended to be consumed off premises, and that hold a specified license with regard to alcoholic beverages.
This inoperative law would require, on and after July 1, 2015, a reusable grocery bag sold by certain stores to a customer at the point of sale to be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and to meet specified requirements with regard to the bag's durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery bags made from plastic film on and after January 1, 2016, recycled material content.
Under the State Constitution, a new state law can be placed be...
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