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A 5072Relates to the paper carryout bag reduction fee

Congress · introduced 2025-02-12

Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
  2. · assembly REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Text versions

Connected on the graph

Inbound (3)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-02-12Vivian Cookcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-02-12Jo Anne Simonsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-02-12Harvey Epsteincosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Jo Anne Simon (, state_lower NY-52)sponsor05
2Harvey Epstein (, state_lower NY-74)cosponsor01
3Vivian Cook (, state_lower NY-32)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-02-12 · cosponsored by Harvey Epstein (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-02-12 · sponsored by Jo Anne Simon (sponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-02-12 · cosponsored by Vivian Cook (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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