Wichita Bag Free Businesses
We now have a bill to stop any bans or charges on any single use
plastic. It's SB 493 in the Senate Commerce Committee
It's up to us. Let's all send emails to the entire House Commerce Committee and ask them to vote NO on SB 493 as stated below. Watch the Commerce Committee meeting last Wednesday. They did not vote this week so you need to act NOW, please!
The list of committee members is right here:
Chair
Rep. Sean Tarwater sean.tarwater@house.ks.gov
Vice Chair
Rep. Marty Long marty.long@house.ks.gov
Ranking Minority Member
Rep. Stephanie Clayton stephanie.clayton@house.ks.gov
Members
Rep. Avery Anderson avery.anderson@house.ks.gov
Rep. Francis Awerkamp francis.awerkamp@house.ks.gov
Rep. Jesse Borjon jesse.borjon@house.ks.gov
Rep. Tom Burroughs tom.burroughs@house.ks.gov
Rep. Will Carpenter will.carpenter@house.ks.gov
Rep. Chris Croft chris.croft@house.ks.gov
Rep. Pam Curtis pam.curtis@house.ks.gov
Rep. Michael Dodson michael.dodson@house.ks.gov
Rep. Ron Highland ron.highland@house.ks.gov
Rep. Kyle Hoffman kyle.hoffman@house.ks.gov
Rep. Steven Johnson steven.johnson@house.ks.gov
Rep. Tom Kessler tom.kessler@house.ks.gov
Rep. Les Mason les.mason@house.ks.gov
Rep. Vic Miller vic.miller@house.ks.gov
Rep. Jason Probst jason.probst@house.ks.gov
Rep. Bradley Ralph bradley.ralph@house.ks.gov
Rep. Louis Ruiz louis.ruiz@house.ks.gov
Rep. William Sutton bill.sutton@house.ks.gov
Rep. Kristey Williams kristey.willliams@house.ks.gov
Rep. Rui Xu rui.xu@house.ks.gov
AN ACT concerning cities and counties; prohibiting the regulation of plastic and other containers designed for the consumption,
transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverages.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. As used in sections 1 and 2, and amendments thereto:
(a) "Auxiliary container" means, without limitation, a bag, cup, package, container, bottle, device or other packaging:
(1) Made of cloth, paper, plastic, foamed plastic, expanded plastic, cardboard, corrugated material, aluminum, glass, postconsumer recycled material or similar coated or laminated material; and
(2) designed for the consumption, transportation or protection of merchandise, food or beverage at a manufacturing, distribution or
processing facility or a food service or retail establishment.
(b) "Food service establishment" means an establishment that prepares or serves food for sale to the public.
(c) "Municipality" means a city, county or unified government.
(d) "Retail establishment" means any retail establishment, including, but not limited to, a grocery store, supermarket, convenience store, liquor store, dry cleaning establishment, pharmacy, drug store, hardware store, clothing store or department store.
Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided under subsection (b), a municipality shall not adopt or enforce an ordinance, resolution or regulation that restricts, taxes, prohibits or otherwise regulates the use, disposition or sale of auxiliary containers.
(b) A municipality may:
(1) Operate a recycling, composting or solid waste disposal program;
or
(2) regulate the use of auxiliary containers on property owned or maintained by the municipality.
(c) Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit or restrict a municipality from:
(1) Passing or enforcing a general state or general local sales and use tax;
(2) restricting the use of glass containers within the municipality based on public safety concerns;
(3) prohibiting littering; or
(4) setting reasonable standards for the regulation of alcohol possession as otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the statute book.
http://kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/measures/documents/sb493_00_0000.pdf
