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| 7 | - | General Assembly | |
| 5 | + | General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6609 | |
| 8 | 6 | January Session, 2023 | |
| 7 | + | LCO No. 3386 | |
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| 10 | + | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT | |
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| 13 | + | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | + | (ENV) | |
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| 14 | 19 | AN ACT CONCERNING EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY | |
| 15 | 20 | FOR SMOKE DETECTORS. | |
| 16 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 17 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 19 | - | Section 1. (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, | |
| 24 | + | Section 1. (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, 2022, the 1 | |
| 20 | 25 | Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit a 2 | |
| 21 | 26 | report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general 3 | |
| 22 | 27 | statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 4 | |
| 23 | 28 | having cognizance of matters relating to the environment concerning: 5 | |
| 24 | 29 | (1) Current best practices for residents of the state to dispose of or 6 | |
| 25 | 30 | recycle residential smoke detectors, (2) any hazardous waste concerns 7 | |
| 26 | 31 | that arise from the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 8 | |
| 27 | 32 | (3) achieved or estimated current state rates for the proper disposal or 9 | |
| 28 | 33 | recycling of residential smoke detectors, (4) the efficacy of extended 10 | |
| 29 | 34 | producer responsibility programs to yield higher rates of proper 11 | |
| 30 | 35 | disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors than are currently 12 | |
| 31 | 36 | achieved or estimated in the state, and (5) legislative recommendations 13 | |
| 32 | 37 | concerning the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 14 | |
| 33 | 38 | including, but not limited to, components of any recommended 15 | |
| 34 | - | extended producer responsibility program for such smoke detectors 16 | |
| 39 | + | extended producer responsibility program for such smoke detectors 16 Raised Bill No. 6609 | |
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| 35 | 45 | and any consumer awareness efforts for the proper disposal or recycling 17 | |
| 36 | 46 | of residential smoke detectors. For purposes of this section, "residential 18 | |
| 37 | - | smoke detector" means any battery-operated or plug-in smoke detector 19 Substitute Bill No. 6609 | |
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| 47 | + | smoke detector" means any battery-operated or plug-in smoke detector 19 | |
| 44 | 48 | intended for use in a residential dwelling, any carbon monoxide 20 | |
| 45 | 49 | detector intended for use in a residential dwelling and any smoke 21 | |
| 46 | 50 | detector and carbon monoxide detector combination intended for use in 22 | |
| 47 | 51 | a residential dwelling. 23 | |
| 48 | 52 | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following | |
| 49 | 53 | sections: | |
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| 51 | 55 | Section 1 from passage New section | |
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| 53 | - | ENV Joint Favorable Subst. | |
| 57 | + | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 58 | + | To determine the need for extended producer responsibility for smoke | |
| 59 | + | detectors in order to keep potential hazardous wastes out of the solid | |
| 60 | + | waste stream and facilitate consumer disposal of such expired devices. | |
| 61 | + | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except | |
| 62 | + | that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not | |
| 63 | + | underlined.] | |
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