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Committee reviews bottle bill edits, handling-fee rise and PRO implementation timeline
Summary
Lawmakers reviewed edits to the state bottle bill that raise the handling fee from 3.5¢ to 4.5¢, shift many obligations to a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), delay some registration deadlines and remove transition grants while preserving producer-implementation funding; ANR warned statutory fee-setting could blunt incentives for modernization.
The Natural Resources & Energy Committee spent much of its April 24 meeting examining a revised bottle bill that increases the handling fee for redemption from 3.5¢ to 4.5¢ and expands the role of a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) in handling redemption and registration.
Staff introduced page-by-page edits and said the draft moves several clauses to align compensation and implementation dates. "Beginning on 03/01/2029 a retailer operating with that consent or settlement shall be reimbursed … according to the fair compensation requirements of the plan," staff said while outlining effective dates in the bill. The draft also repeals manufacturer registration once the PRO is established and requires producers and the PRO to list covered beverages on the PRO…
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