This Amendment to House Substitute No.

Plain English Breakdown

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Clarifying Customer Requests for Single-Use Items

This amendment states that if a restaurant asks if you want a disposable item and you say yes, it counts as an explicit request.

What This Bill Does

• Defines what counts as an 'explicit request' under the law.
• Says a customer's affirmative answer to a question about single-use items is that request.

Who It Names or Affects

• Food service establishments
• Customers who order at food service establishments

Terms To Know

Single-use food service item

A disposable product used once and thrown away.

Explicit request

An affirmative answer to a question from the establishment about whether the customer wants an item.

Limits and Unknowns

• The text does not say when this rule will start or end.
• It only explains how an affirmative answer is treated, not what happens if a customer says no or stays silent.

Official Summary Text

This Amendment to House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 111 clarifies that an affirmative answer to a food service establishment's inquiry of whether a customer wants a single-use food service item is an explicit request by the customer for the single-use food service item.

Current Bill Text

Legislation Document

SPONSOR:

Rep. Phillips

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 2

TO

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE NO. 2

FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 111

AMEND House Substitute No. 2 for House Bill No. 111 on line 55 by inserting "

For purposes of this section, an affirmative answer in response to a food establishment’s inquiry as to whether the customer wants a single-use food service item is an explicit request.

" after the period therein.

SYNOPSIS

This Amendment to House Substitute No. 2 to House Bill 111 clarifies that an affirmative answer to a food service establishment's inquiry of whether a customer wants a single-use food service item is an explicit request by the customer for the single-use food service item.