SHB 1085: Reducing plastic pollution.

What this bill does

Prohibits the sale, distribution, and installation of expanded or extruded plastic foam overwater structures, and of expanded or extruded plastic foam blocks and floats used in overwater structures. Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal health or beauty products in certain plastic containers or wrappers, effective July 1, 2025, for lodging establishments with 50 or more lodging units, and July 1, 2026, for smaller lodging establishments. Requires any construction in which a drinking fountain is required under the State Building Code to also require the provision of a bottle filling station for each required drinking fountain.

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Floor votes

• House: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · February 28, 2023
  97 yea · 0 nay · 1 not voting
• Senate: 3rd Reading & Final Passage · April 8, 2023
  37 yea · 11 nay · 1 not voting

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