Bill#: HB 2692
Primary Sponsor: David Cook (D)
Introduction Date: 03/11/05
Provisions of Bill:
Amount of Deposit: 5 cents
Handling Fee: 1 cent
Containers Covered: metal, glass, aluminum and plastic
Beverages Covered: beer, ale, and other malt beverages; wine, wine coolers, spirits, and distilled spirit coolers; coffee and tea drinks; carbonated water, including soda and carbonated mineral waters; carbonated soft drinks; and bottled water, sports drinks, one hundred percent fruit juices, and other juice drinks to which carbonation has been added.
The Arkansas House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee may choose to consider Representative David Cook’s 2005 “Beverage Container Litter Reduction Act” (HB 2692) during the 12 month interim between legislative sessions - before the 2007 Arkansas General Assembly convenes.
In the meantime, Arkansas bottle bill supporters are not simply sitting quietly.
The main group of activists for the bill is Save Our Spring River, a small organization doing its best to get some large, influential groups involved in the campaign.
Ruth Reynolds of Save Our Spring River has been asking Arkansas quorum courts to pass a resolution of support for a state bottle bill, and has already received the endorsements from the quorum courts in Izard County, Van Buren County, Sharp County, and Stone County.
The list of other organizations supporting the bill includes: