A Sacramento City Council subcommittee moved forward Tuesday with drafting an ordinance to ban single-use plastic shopping bags at large grocery stores in the city.
The council's Law and Legislation Committee directed city staff to begin working on the ordinance, which will eventually return to the committee before being voted on by the City Council. The process of adopting a ban would likely take until June.
In addition to banning plastic bags, the ordinance would place a 5-cent or 10-cent charge on paper shopping bags. That money would go to stores, not to the city.
Council members said they would prefer a ban that applies to large grocery outlets, as well as department stores and chain pharmacies that sell groceries, such as Target and CVS. Smaller stores would likely be exempt from the ban.
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