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76 General Assembly Committee Bill No. 229
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2019 AN ACT PROHIBITING THE USE OF STYROFOAM TRAYS I N
2120 CONNECTICUT SCHOOLS.
2221 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
2322 Assembly convened:
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2524 Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) On and after the effective 1
2625 date of this section, no school district or regional school district shall 2
2726 enter a contract for the purchase of any tray made from expanded 3
2827 polystyrene. Not later than October 1, 2019, each school district and 4
2928 regional school district shall develop a plan for discontinuing the use 5
3029 in such district of trays made from expanded polystyrene. Such plan 6
3130 shall require the district to discontinue such use not later than July 1, 7
3231 2020. For purposes of this section, "expanded polystyrene" means 8
3332 blown polystyrene and expanded and extruded foams that are 9
3433 thermoplastic petrochemical materials utilizing a styrene monomer 10
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3635 to, fusion of polymer spheres, injection molding, foam molding and 12
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3837 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
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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
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53+Co-Sponsors: SEN. MARONEY, 14th Dist.; REP. ROSE, 118th Dist.
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