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Bills › 89th General Assembly

HF 156Died when the session ended · January 21, 2021

Providing for the repeal of the beverage containers control program, and including effective date provisions

Topics:State government

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Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2021
  2. Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
  3. Next: House committee
  4. Next: Passes the House
  5. Next: Senate committee
  6. Next: Passes the Senate
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. 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 provides for the repeal of the beverage containers control program, commonly referred to as the “bottle bill”. 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.

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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. Upon enactment, the bill strikes the provision of the beverage containers control program that requires a dealer to charge a consumer the refund value for each beverage container. Six months thereafter, the provisions of the program that allow a consumer to return beverage containers in exchange for the refund value and that allow a dealer or a person operating a redemption center to return beverage containers to a distributor in exchange for the refund value and handling fee are repealed. The bill amends various Code provisions to conform with changes to the beverage containers control program as changes to the program become effective.

Full bill text1

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§123.187§123.24§123.26§423.6§455A.6§455C.1§455C.2

How the Code works2

Lobbying

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