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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 121

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Relating to: the sale of lead acid batteries and acceptance of used lead acid batteries.

Motor vehicle — Equipment Public health Retail establishment Sales

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law prohibits a person from disposing of a lead acid battery, including

a motor vehicle battery, by placing it in a landfill or incinerating it. Current law

requires anyone who sells a lead acid battery to a person who will use the battery (a

consumer) and who installs the battery to accept the consumer's used battery.

Current law also requires a person who sells a lead acid battery to a consumer

without installing the battery to offer to take the used battery in trade. The law

prohibits a person from charging a consumer a deposit of more than $5 on the sale

of a lead acid battery.

This bill requires a person who sells a lead acid battery to a consumer to charge

a deposit of not less than $5. The bill also changes terminology in the law relating

to the sale of lead acid batteries and defines the term "deposit" for the purposes of

that law.

Sponsors

Introduced by: C. Larson (D) , Carpenter (D) , Cowles (R) , Harris (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Olsen (R)

14 cosponsors

A. Ott (R) , Barnes (D) , Bies (R) , Brooks (R) , Hebl (D) , Honadel (R) , Hulsey (D) , Kolste (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pasch (D) , Riemer (D) , Stone (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wright (D)

Full history

  1. Apr 1, 2013 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators C. Larson, Cowles, Carpenter, Grothman, Harris, Olsen and L. Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Honadel, Thiesfeldt, Barnes, Bies, Brooks, Hebl, Hulsey, Kolste, Ohnstad, A. Ott, Pasch, Riemer, Stone and Wright

  2. Apr 1, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Natural Resources

  3. Aug 28, 2013 · Senate

    Senator Grothman withdrawn as a coauthor

  4. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1