Reusable grocery bags.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify what types of bags will be allowed after the restrictions are removed.

Reusable Grocery Bags Law

AB-2226 removes existing laws that restrict the types of bags stores can give to customers before they reach the checkout area.

What This Bill Does

• Removes rules about what kinds of bags stores can provide to customers before they reach the point of sale.

Who It Names or Affects

• Stores that sell items and give out bags before customers reach checkout.
• Customers who receive bags from these stores.

Terms To Know

Precheckout bag

A bag given to a customer by a store before the customer reaches the point of sale where they pay for items.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify what new types of bags stores may provide.
• The bill's final status and any future changes are unknown as it has passed the Legislature but further actions might be needed.

Official Summary Text

AB 2226, as introduced, Blanca Rubio.
Reusable grocery bags.
Existing law prohibits a store, as defined, from providing a precheckout bag, as defined, to a customer unless the precheckout bag is a compostable bag that meets certain criteria or a recycled paper bag. Existing law defines a “precheckout bag” for this purpose to mean a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item.
This bill would repeal those provisions.

Current Bill Text

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