2021-2022 Regular Session • US Congress Legislature
HB2238: Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021
Legislative Summary
To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of their consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.
Bill History
3/26/2021
Introduced in House
House of Representatives
3/26/2021
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
House of Representatives
3/29/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
House of Representatives
3/29/2021
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
House of Representatives
6/30/2022
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(3/26/2021)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Sponsors
Democrat: 131
Primary Sponsor
Alan Lowenthal
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (130)
Katherine Clark
Democrat
Eleanor Norton
Democrat
Nanette Barragan
Democrat
Salud Carbajal
Democrat
Gerald Connolly
Democrat
Mike Quigley
Democrat
Stephen Lynch
Democrat
Jimmy Gomez
Democrat
Emanuel Cleaver
Democrat
Jamie Raskin
Democrat
Dwight Evans
Democrat
Daniel Kildee
Democrat
C.A. Ruppersberger
Democrat
Barbara Lee
Democrat
Joseph Morelle
Democrat
Jared Huffman
Democrat
Mike Levin
Democrat
Nydia Velazquez
Democrat
Mondaire Jones
Democrat
Derek Kilmer
Democrat
Thomas Suozzi
Democrat
Yvette Clarke
Democrat
Janice Schakowsky
Democrat
Ed Case
Democrat
Marilyn Strickland
Democrat
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democrat
Earl Blumenauer
Democrat
Ro Khanna
Democrat
Gregory Meeks
Democrat
Sean Maloney
Democrat
Chellie Pingree
Democrat
Sara Jacobs
Democrat
David Trone
Democrat
Julia Brownley
Democrat
Alcee Hastings
Democrat
Grace Napolitano
Democrat
Steve Cohen
Democrat
Adriano Espaillat
Democrat
Jerrold Nadler
Democrat
Carolyn Maloney
Democrat
Marie Newman
Democrat
Brad Sherman
Democrat
Peter Welch
Democrat
Charlie Crist
Democrat
Grace Meng
Democrat
Suzanne Bonamici
Democrat
Adam Smith
Democrat
Raul Grijalva
Democrat
Elaine Luria
Democrat
Lori Trahan
Democrat
Judy Chu
Democrat
Betty McCollum
Democrat
David Cicilline
Democrat
Suzan DelBene
Democrat
Peter DeFazio
Democrat
Henry Johnson
Democrat
Mark DeSaulnier
Democrat
James McGovern
Democrat
Rashida Tlaib
Democrat
Ayanna Pressley
Democrat
Bonnie Coleman
Democrat
Veronica Escobar
Democrat
Jimmy Panetta
Democrat
Antonio Delgado
Democrat
Lisa Rochester
Democrat
Kaialii Kahele
Democrat
William Keating
Democrat
Jake Auchincloss
Democrat
John Sarbanes
Democrat
Mary Gay Scanlon
Democrat
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Democrat
Kim Schrier
Democrat
Susan Wild
Democrat
Kathy Castor
Democrat
Pramila Jayapal
Democrat
Madeleine Dean
Democrat
Anna Eshoo
Democrat
Mark Takano
Democrat
Val Demings
Democrat
Robert Scott
Democrat
Teresa Fernandez
Democrat
Seth Moulton
Democrat
Joseph Neguse
Democrat
Theodore Deutch
Democrat
Rick Larsen
Democrat
Ilhan Omar
Democrat
Katie Porter
Democrat
Andy Levin
Democrat
Matthew Cartwright
Democrat
Hakeem Jeffries
Democrat
Diana DeGette
Democrat
Lauren Underwood
Democrat
John Garamendi
Democrat
Juan Vargas
Democrat
Jesus Garcia
Democrat
Lloyd Doggett
Democrat
Zoe Lofgren
Democrat
Ritchie Torres
Democrat
Ted Lieu
Democrat
Jamaal Bowman
Democrat
Bobby Rush
Democrat
Al Lawson
Democrat
Brendan Boyle
Democrat
Maxine Waters
Democrat
John Larson
Democrat
John Yarmuth
Democrat
Bill Pascrell
Democrat
Kathy Manning
Democrat
Linda Sanchez
Democrat
Debbie Dingell
Democrat
Stephanie Murphy
Democrat
Lois Frankel
Democrat
Carolyn Bourdeaux
Democrat
Melanie Stansbury
Democrat
Andre Carson
Democrat
Bradley Schneider
Democrat
Karen Bass
Democrat
Doris Matsui
Democrat
Don Beyer
Democrat
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democrat
Frederica Wilson
Democrat
Lucy McBath
Democrat
Donald Payne
Democrat
Sean Casten
Democrat
Pete Aguilar
Democrat
Donald McEachin
Democrat
Adam Schiff
Democrat
Jerry McNerney
Democrat
Ann Kuster
Democrat
Mark Pocan
Democrat