Skip to content

Solid waste: recycled paper bags: standards: carryout bag prohibition.

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

CA AB 2236 · Assembly Bill · 2023–2024

Stage
Session ended
Started in
Assembly
Sponsors
13
Latest action
Aug 29, 2024

What it does

Existing law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a single-use carryout bag to a customer at the point of sale, with specified exceptions, including an exemption for bags used to contain unwrapped food. Existing law defines a "single-use carryout bag" as a bag made of plastic, paper, or other material that is provided by a store to a customer at the point of sale and that is not a recycled paper bag or a reusable grocery bag that meets specified requirements, including that the bag be made by a certified reusable grocery bag producer and meets specified requirements with regard to the bag's durability, material, labeling, heavy metal content, and, with regard to reusable grocery…

Read the full text

Where it stands

This bill did not become law and its session has ended, so it can no longer move. It would have to be reintroduced.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Current step)

    Passed both chambers · Aug 29, 2024

  4. Law (Needs attention)

    The session ended first

What moved

Loading recorded actions…

Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

Where it goes next

While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money in California.

Work with this bill

Solid waste: recycled paper bags: standards: carryout bag prohibition. | 52