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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6609
January Session, 2023
LCO No. 3386
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT
Introduced by:
(ENV)
AN ACT CONCERNING EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY
FOR SMOKE DETECTORS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, 2022, the 1
Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit a 2
report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general 3
statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 4
having cognizance of matters relating to the environment concerning: 5
(1) Current best practices for residents of the state to dispose of or 6
recycle residential smoke detectors, (2) any hazardous waste concerns 7
that arise from the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 8
(3) achieved or estimated current state rates for the proper disposal or 9
recycling of residential smoke detectors, (4) the efficacy of extended 10
producer responsibility programs to yield higher rates of proper 11
disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors than are currently 12
achieved or estimated in the state, and (5) legislative recommendations 13
concerning the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 14
including, but not limited to, components of any recommended 15
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and any consumer awareness efforts for the proper disposal or recycling 17
of residential smoke detectors. For purposes of this section, "residential 18
smoke detector" means any battery-operated or plug-in smoke detector 19
intended for use in a residential dwelling, any carbon monoxide 20
detector intended for use in a residential dwelling and any smoke 21
detector and carbon monoxide detector combination intended for use in 22
a residential dwelling. 23
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To determine the need for extended producer responsibility for smoke
detectors in order to keep potential hazardous wastes out of the solid
waste stream and facilitate consumer disposal of such expired devices.
[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.]