No. SB 958
Filed under Environment & Water.
Local Regulation of Drinking Straws and Stirrers; Prohibiting local governmental entities from enacting any rule, regulation, or ordinance for drinking straws or stirrers which does not meet specified requirements; providing requirements for local governmental entities that elect to enact rules, regulations, or ordinances for drinking straws or stirrers, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBars local governments from adopting any straw or stirrer rule that does not permit sales of straws certified as renewable, home compostable, industrial compostable, or marine biodegradable. New local plastic-straw restrictions must leave room for these alternatives.
By January 1, 2027, cities and counties must rewrite any existing straw ordinance that blocks these certified alternatives, so it instead allows their sale and use.
If a local government does choose to regulate straws, its rule must require them to meet all four standards at once: renewable, home compostable, industrial compostable, and marine biodegradable.
Prepackaged drinks and straws used in hospitals, medical facilities, or senior care facilities are exempt from all of this. Local governments are never required to pass a straw rule at all.
AIA city or county may not adopt any rule, regulation, or ordinance covering the use, sale, or restriction of drinking straws or stirrers unless it satisfies this section's requirements -- chiefly, that it permit straws meeting at least one of the listed material certifications.
AIAny local rule already in effect that does not permit the sale of renewable, home compostable, industrial compostable, or marine biodegradable straws must be amended by January 1, 2027, to permit them.
AIIf a local government chooses to regulate straws or stirrers at all, its rule must require them to be renewable, home compostable certified, industrial compostable certified, and marine biodegradable, all at once.
AIThis section, and by extension any local rule built on it, does not reach straws sold with prepackaged drinks or used in a hospital, medical care facility, or senior care facility.
AINothing in this section obligates a city or county to adopt any straw or stirrer regulation in the first place; it only limits what such a rule may say if one is adopted.