Connecticut 2019 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00229 Compare Versions

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7	6		General Assembly Committee Bill No. 229
8	7		January Session, 2019
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12	11		Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
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15	14		Introduced by:
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20	19		AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF STYROFOAM TRAYS I N
21	20		CONNECTICUT SCHOOLS.
22	21		Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
23	22		Assembly convened:
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25	24		Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) On and after the effective 1
26	25		date of this section, no school district or regional school district shall 2
27	26		enter a contract for the purchase of any tray made from expanded 3
28	27		polystyrene. Not later than October 1, 2019, each school district and 4
29	28		regional school district shall develop a plan for discontinuing the use 5
30	29		in such district of trays made from expanded polystyrene. Such plan 6
31	30		shall require the district to discontinue such use not later than July 1, 7
32	31		2020. For purposes of this section, "expanded polystyrene" means 8
33	32		blown polystyrene and expanded and extruded foams that are 9
34	33		thermoplastic petrochemical materials utilizing a styrene monomer 10
35	34		and processed by any number of techniques including, but not limited 11
36	35		to, fusion of polymer spheres, injection molding, foam molding and 12
37	36		extrusion-blown molding. 13
38	37		This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
39	38		sections:
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47	45		Section 1 from passage New section
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49		-	ENV Joint Favorable
	47	+	Statement of Purpose:
	48	+	To end the use of styrofoam trays in Connecticut schools.
	49	+	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
	50	+	except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
	51	+	not underlined.]
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	53	+	Co-Sponsors: SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.; REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.
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	55	+	S.B. 229
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