2025 bills / S.B. 217
S.B. 217 Recycling and Waste Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill requires manufacturers of consumer electronic devices to run public education programs about how to collect, reuse, or recycle those devices. It also requires the Department of Environmental Quality to run a public education program on electronic and other waste and to post recycling program information on its website.
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Official description
- defines "community collection event"
- requires a manufacturer of a consumer electronic device to develop a public education program about a collection, reuse, or recycling program for a consumer electronic device
- requires the Department of Environmental Quality (department) to develop a public education program related to electronic and other waste
- requires the department to publish information related to recycling programs and recycling resources on the department's website
- removes an exception for the department to charge more than one fee for the same solid waste
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 217 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 217 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: Consent Calendar Recommendation · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 64 yes, 0 no, 11 absentFinal House vote · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how