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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 229
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5042
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF STYROFOAM TRAYS I N
CONNECTICUT SCHOOLS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) On and after the effective 1
date of this section, no school district or regional school district shall 2
enter a contract for the purchase of any tray made from expanded 3
polystyrene. Not later than October 1, 2019, each school district and 4
regional school district shall develop a plan for discontinuing the use 5
in such district of trays made from expanded polystyrene. Such plan 6
shall require the district to discontinue such use not later than July 1, 7
2020. For purposes of this section, "expanded polystyrene" means 8
blown polystyrene and expanded and extruded foams that are 9
thermoplastic petrochemical materials utilizing a styrene monomer 10
and processed by any number of techniques including, but not limited 11
to, fusion of polymer spheres, injection molding, foam molding and 12
extrusion-blown molding. 13
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To end the use of styrofoam trays in Connecticut schools.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.; REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.
S.B. 229