Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to the applicability of the beverage containers control program and making appropriations
Topics:State government
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the applicability of the beverage containers control program. Under current law, when a distributor sells beverages in eligible containers to a dealer, the distributor adds cents per eligible container to the sale price. When a dealer sells beverages in eligible containers to a consumer, the dealer charges the 5-cent deposit on each beverage container. A consumer can take eligible beverage containers to a dealer, dealer agent, or redemption center and receive a 5-cent refund for every eligible beverage container that the consumer returns.
Read the full explanation
A distributor collects eligible containers from a dealer, dealer agent, or redemption center, at which time the distributor pays the dealer, dealer agent, or redemption center cents per eligible container plus a handling fee of an additional cent per empty container. The bill raises the handling fee paid by a distributor to cents for each empty beverage container. Under the bill, a dealer may choose to not accept beverage containers by providing notice to the department of natural resources (DNR) if the dealer’s place of business is within a 20-mile radius of a redemption center or dealer agent or if the dealer sells prepared food for consumption on or off the premises. The bill refers to dealers that accept beverage containers as “participating dealers”. The bill requires a distributor to keep all refund value that has not been paid by the distributor to a participating dealer, dealer agent, or redemption center and provide an annual report to DNR detailing the amount of unpaid refund value that the distributor held at the end of the preceding calendar year. On a monthly basis beginning July 1, 2021, percent of the unpaid refund value that the distributor holds shall be credited to the treasurer of state. One-third of the amount credited shall be deposited in the shelter assistance fund administered by the Iowa finance authority. One-third of the amount credited shall be deposited in the Iowa emergency food purchase program fund administered by the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The remaining one-third of the amount credited shall be deposited in the redemption rates improvement projects fund, which is created by the bill in the state treasury under the control of the environmental protection commission. Moneys in the fund shall be administered by the commission and shall be allocated for purposes of launching and administering initiatives to increase the rate of redemption of beverage containers. The bill makes numerous changes throughout Code chapter 455C to change instances of “dealer” to “participating dealer”, remove obsolete language, and stylistically and grammatically update the Code chapter.