Budget Amendment ID: FY2014-S3-206

ENV 206

Cleaner Commonwealth Study

Mr. Hedlund moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section ___, the following new section:-

SECTION ___. The secretary of environmental affairs shall conduct an analysis of instituting the bottle bill. The study shall include, but not be limited to: (i) financial benefit of the bottle bill, (ii) analysis of other states that have instituted the bottle bill, (iii) assessing current littering laws. A report on the result of the study shall be filed not later than October 1, 2014 with the governor, the clerks of the house of representatives and the senate, and the house and senate committees on ways and means.