NFIB, the state’s leading small business advocacy organization, is urging the Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee to pass legislation stopping cities and counties from enacting their own bans on bags, cups and other containers made of plastic.
“This is something that should be decided at the state level, not by local governments creating a patchwork of different rules and regulations,” said Ben Homeyer, NFIB’s state director for South Carolina. “When local governments set their own standards that go beyond the state’s own regulations, you’re creating a situation where a small business could be following the rules in one town but get in trouble when it makes a delivery a few miles down the road.
“That’s why our members are asking their Senators to stop this crazy quilt of local regulations and vote ‘yes’ on Senate Bill 394,” Homeyer said.
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