3.0.0 2645 2023-01-01T20:17:30Z 2023-01-01T20:17:30Z Senate S 2021-08-05 117 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-08-05T21:30:58Z REDUCE Act of 2021 117 5389 HR 2021-09-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. Identical bill CRS 2021-08-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2021-08-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI N Taxation Taxation 00 2021-08-05 Introduced in Senate 2021-09-21T18:48:03Z Rewarding Efforts to Decrease Unrecycled Contaminants in Ecosystems Act of 2021 or the REDUCE Act of 2021

This bill imposes an excise tax on any taxable virgin plastic resin.

The bill establishes a Plastic Waste Reduction Fund to carry out reduction and recycling activities, plastic waste and marine debris reduction, detection, monitoring, and cleanup activities, and address environmental justice and pollution impacts from plastic products.

]]> Rewarding Efforts to Decrease Unrecycled Contaminants in Ecosystems Act of 2021 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish an excise tax on plastics. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Rewarding Efforts to Decrease Unrecycled Contaminants in Ecosystems Act of 2021 Short Title(s) as Introduced Rewarding Efforts to Decrease Unrecycled Contaminants in Ecosystems Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced REDUCE Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s2645is/xml/BILLS-117s2645is.xml 2021-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.