HOUSE BILL NO. 2823 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE DOLL.
6320H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal section 260.283, RSMo, relating to the packaging of purchased items.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 260.283, RSMo, is repealed, to read as follows: [260.283. 1. All merchants, itinerant vendors, and peddlers doing 2 business in this state shall have the option to provide customers either a paper 3 or a plastic bag for the packaging of any item or good purchased, provided 4 such purchase is of a size and manner commensurate with the use of paper and 5 plastic bags. 6 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no political subdivision 7 shall impose any ban, fee, or tax upon the use of either paper or plastic bags for 8 packaging of any item or good purchased from a merchant, itinerant vendor, or 9 peddler. No political subdivision shall prohibit a consumer from using a 10 reusable bag for the packaging of any item or good purchased from a 11 merchant, itinerant vendor, or peddler.]
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EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.
Statutes affected: