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Senate debates tire-recycling fee; retailers warn of burden while health officials back program
Summary
Senators debated Substitute Senate Bill 5, a plan to fund tire recycling through a retailer-collected fee, with small dealers warning of administrative burdens and potential dumping while county health officials said the program is needed and can be administered locally. Several amendments were adopted; no final passage is recorded in the transcript.
Senators spent much of the floor session debating Substitute Senate Bill 5, a proposal to fund tire recycling through a small fee levied on tire sales and administered at the retail level.
The bill’s sponsor, identified in the transcript as Senator Tempest, presented the measure to address mounting public-health and disposal problems from waste tires. Senator Richard Carling offered an early amendment to impose a 2.5 percent recycling fee collected by retailers; the amendment was distributed in advance and was adopted by the body. Opponents in the floor debate and in committee testimony argued the retail collection model imposes an undue burden on small businesses and could incentivize cross‑border purchases or illegal dumping.
A tire retailer who testified in a Committee of the Whole (identified in the…
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