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Introduced Session

AN ACT concerning Environment - Reducing Packaging Materials - Statewide Recycling Needs Assessment and Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials FOR the purpose of requiring certain producers of packaging materials to individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization submit a certain packaging materials producer responsibility plan to the Department of the Environment for review and approval on or before a certain date and in accordance with certain requirements; prohibiting, on or after a certain date, a producer of certain packaging materials from selling, offering for sale, distributing, or importing certain packaging materials unless the producer, individually or as part of a producer responsibility organization, has an approved producer responsibility plan on file with the Department; requiring a producer responsibility organization to pay certain costs to the Department; requiring a producer responsibility organization to implement a producer responsibility plan within a certain amount of time after the Department approves the producer responsibility plan; establishing a producer responsibility plan advisory council; authorizing a local government to request reimbursement from a certain producer that has an approved producer responsibility plan on file with the Department for certain costs in a certain manner; altering the definition of “organics recycling” to include the processing of certain compostable packaging materials in a certain manner; establishing a producer responsibility advisory council to provide advice and make recommendations regarding establishing and implementing a producer responsibility program in the State for packaging materials and to report to certain committees of the General Assembly on or before a certain date; requiring the Office of Recycling in the Department of the Underlining indicates amendments to bill. Strike out indicates matter stricken from the bill by amendment or deleted from the law by amendment. HOUSE BILL 284 Environment to hire an independent contractor to conduct certain statewide recycling needs assessments in a certain manner and to submit certain reports on the results of the assessments to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before certain dates a certain statewide recycling needs assessment in a certain manner and to submit a certain report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before a certain date; and generally relating to a statewide recycling needs assessment and producer responsibility for packaging materials. BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, Article - Environment Section 9-1701(a) Annotated Code of Maryland (2014 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, Article - Environment Section 9-1702 and 9-1707(f) 9-1701(n) Annotated Code of Maryland (2014 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement) BY adding to Article - Environment Section 9-1702.2; and 9-2501 through 9-2510 and 9-2502 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 25. Producer Responsibility for Packaging Materials” Annotated Code of Maryland (2014 Replacement Volume and 2022 Supplement)

Committee Categories

Sara Love (D)*,  Linda Foley (D),  Cathi Forbes (D),  David Fraser-Hidalgo (D),  Dana Jones (D),  Mary Lehman (D),  Robbyn Lewis (D),  David Moon (D),  Julie Palakovich Carr (D),  Edith Patterson (D),  Sheila Ruth (D),  Veronica Turner (D), 

Rereferred to Education, Energy, and the Environment (on 04/07/2023)

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