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CA – Illegal To Provide Single-use Food Accessories, AB 1276

CA – Illegal to Provide Single-use Food Accessories, AB 1276

AB 1276 – This bill would instead prohibit a food facility or a third-party food delivery platform, as specified, from providing any single-use food accessories, as defined, to consumers unless requested by the consumer and, commencing on January 1, 2023, would prohibit a full-service restaurant that has adequate dishwashing capacity to sanitize reusable service ware from providing single-use service ware to consumers except under specified conditions. The bill would require enforcement of these prohibitions by officers of an agency requiring each city, county, or city and county governing body to select on or before June 1, 2022. The bill would specify that the first and 2nd violations of the prohibitions result in a notice of violation. Any

subsequent violation is an infraction punishable by a fine of $100 for each day in violation, but not to exceed an annual total of $1000. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime and imposing additional duties on local governing bodies. View the full Bill here: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1276

AB 1276

Restaurants prohibited from providing any single-use food accessories, such as straws and plastic ware.

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