Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, a person who violates any provision of the code to be guilty of a misdemeanor with each offense punishable by a fine of not less than $25 or more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 6 months, or by both.
This bill would prohibit a food facility, as specified, where food may be consumed on the premises from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers unless requested by the consumer. By creating a new crime and imposing additional enforcement duties on local health agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:54PM (3 children)
So giving someone AIDS isn't a crime, but giving them a plastic straw is? It's sad that at times(gas cans) people use California as an example to emulate, rathern than an example of what to do the opposite of.
(Score: 4, Informative) by shortscreen on Saturday January 27 2018, @09:57PM (1 child)
Actually, spreading HIV intentionally was lowered to a misdemeanor, so including a straw in their happy meal would be the same as that.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday January 29 2018, @05:23PM
That is all kinds of messed up.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday January 28 2018, @12:32AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
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