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History
- Signed chap.381
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.410
- Substituted for A7483
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–1
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.436
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- Referred to environmental conservation
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Authorizes the sale of metal beverage containers with caps that do not decompose
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor David Gantt
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4323
Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to authorizing the sale of metal beverage containers with caps that do not decompose
Purpose
This legislation allows for metal beverage containers to have a ring or tab that is detachable.
Summary of specific provisions
Amends the environmental conservation law to allow for metal beverage containers to have a ring or tab that is detachable.
Justification
Under a provision of the original bottle bill enacted in 1982 metal bottles are technically illegal in the state under the bottle bill for both statutory and regulatory reasons. This provision was enacted to address the original pull-tabs on cans that were totally detachable and had the potential of causing serious injury and death to fish and wildlife. As a result part of the bottle bill contains language requiring that the cap remain adhered to the container when opened. At the time this law was enacted, metal bottles did not exist and this addressed only the pull-tab issue and resolved the problems that these tabs caused.
A related regulatory issue exists due to a requirement that metal cans are required to have the deposit requirements etched on to the top of the container, something that makes sense on a can given its size but not on a bottle cap.
In recent years a number of bottlers have designed and marketed beverages in metal bottles that more closely resemble traditional glass bottles rather than cans and have a twist cap identical to the cap placed on a glass bottle. These have proven to be both environmentally and business friendly for at least four reasons-they weigh less than glass containers and therefore cost less to transport, the metal container has greater markets for recycling than do glass containers, they cost less to refrigerate thereby saving energy and by being virtually unbreakable, the risk of injury to humans or animals is greatly diminished.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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