STATEMENT TO

 

[Second Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 2065

 

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator SMITH)

 

ADOPTED: MARCH 24, 2022


 

      These floor amendments would:

      (1)  remove a provision that would have prohibited food banks and food pantries from providing single use paper bags to customers beginning on November 4, 2022; and

      (2)  appropriate $600,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection to fund the distribution of 500,000 free reusable carryout bags to food banks in the State, as required by the bill.