Signed by Governor Kate Brown

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits single-use plastic straws at restaurants unless asked for one directly.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a food and beverage provider or convenience store from providing single-use plastic straw to a consumer unless the consumer specifically requests the single-use plastic straw (Sec. 1).

• Exempts health care facilities and residential care facilities that provide single-use plastic straws to patients or residents from the definition of “food and beverage provider” (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes a consumer to request, and food and beverage provider or a convenience store to offer to the consumer, a single-use plastic straw in an area of the food service provider’s or convenience store’s premises in which the consumer can receive a delivery of prepared food or beverage while seated in or on a vehicle (Sec. 1). 

• Exempts a convenience store that does the following from the prohibition in this act (Sec. 1):

• Sells or offers single-use plastic straws for sale in bulk or unconnected with a sale or provision of food or a beverage; or 

• Makes single-use plastic straws available to consumers in an unattended location, provided that the convenience store leaves the single-use plastic straws in an unattended location only if the convenience store does not have space in which to store the single-use plastic straws in a location where employees of the convenience store provide service to consumers.

• Specifies that a food and beverage provider or convenience store found in violation of this bill will be issued a notice for first and second violations, and will be fined no more than $25 for each day in which the food and beverage provider or convenience store remains in violation, for third and subsequent violations (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes an enforcement officer to enforce this bill in the course conducting an inspection (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits the enforcement officer from imposing fines of more than $300 during a calendar year for a food and beverage provider’s or convenience store’s violation (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits a local government or municipality from enacting an ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule or other law with requirements that differ from the provision in this act (Sec. 2).

• Specifies this act becomes operative on January 1, 2020 (Sec. 3).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits single-use plastic straws at restaurants unless asked for one directly.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a food and beverage provider or convenience store from providing single-use plastic straw to a consumer unless the consumer specifically requests the single-use plastic straw (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes a consumer to request, and food and beverage provider or a convenience store to offer to the consumer, a single-use plastic straw in an area of the food service provider’s or convenience store’s premises in which the consumer can receive a delivery of prepared food or beverage while seated in or on a vehicle (Sec. 1).

• Exempts a convenience store that does the following from the prohibition in this act (Sec. 1):

• Sells or offers single-use plastic straws for sale in bulk or unconnected with a sale or provision of food or a beverage; or

• Makes single-use plastic straws available to consumers in an unattended location, provided that the convenience store leaves the single-use plastic straws in an unattended location only if the convenience store does not have space in which to store the single-use plastic straws in a location where employees of the convenience store provide service to consumers.

• Specifies that a food and beverage provider or convenience store found in violation of this bill will be issued a notice for first and second violations, and will be fined no more than $25 for each day in which the food and beverage provider or convenience store remains in violation, for third and subsequent violations (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes an enforcement officer to enforce this bill in the course conducting an inspection (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits the enforcement officer from imposing fines of more than $300 during a calendar year for a food and beverage provider’s or convenience store’s violation (Sec. 1).

• Prohibits a local government or municipality from enacting an ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule or other law with requirements that differ from the provision in this act (Sec. 2).

• Specifies this act becomes operative on January 1, 2020 (Sec. 3).

Full Bill Text