OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
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HB-6609
AN ACT CONCERNING EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY
FOR SMOKE DETECTORS.
AMENDMENT
LCO No.: 7071
File Copy No.: 133
House Calendar No.: 105
Primary Analyst: MR 4/27/23
Contributing Analyst(s): ()
Reviewer: MP
OFA Fiscal Note
State Impact: None
Municipal Impact:
Municipalities Effect FY 24 $ FY 25 $
Various Municipalities See Below See Below See Below
Explanation
The amendment strikes the underlying bill and its associated fiscal
impact.
Instead, the amendment requires, by April 1, 2024: (1) smoke detector
producers to establish a collection and recycling program to collect,
transport and manage obsolete smoke detectors received at collection
sites, and (2) make collection containers available to any wholesaler,
retailer or municipality that participates as a collection site in the smoke
detector collection and recycling program under the amendment.
This may result in a one-time cost to some municipalities, as it allows
smoke detector manufacturers to charge each municipality that
participates in the collection and recycling program, and that receives a
collection container, a one-time program administration fee of not more
than $75. This cost could occur as early as FY 24, but could occur in any 2023HB-06609-R00LCO07071-FNA.docx Page 2 of 2
year a town or city joins the program.
Additionally, the strike-all amendment establishes a ban, starting in
FY 26, for disposing of smoke detectors in the commercial or municipal
solid waste stream (MSW) and allows the Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection (DEEP) to enforce the ban. While this has no
fiscal impact in either FY 24 or FY 25, this could potentially result in
municipal savings, beginning in FY 26, as fewer smoke detectors would
be part of the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream and subject to any
costs for shipping MSW out-of-state.
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There is no fiscal impact to DEEP because the department has
sufficient resources to carry out its responsibilities under the
amendment.
The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely
for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General
Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of
informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is
consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any
specific department.
1
The fee charged by the owner or operator of a landfill for the acceptance of a unit
weight or volume of solid waste for disposal, usually done by the truckload. The
tipping fee is passed back along the chain of waste acceptor to hauler to generator in
the form of fees or taxes. Tipping fees rise as the volume of available landfill space is
depleted.