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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 3327635" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau" target="_blank">California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau" target="_blank">California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884" target="_blank">bill</a> to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws <em>or</em> utensils <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/11/seattles-straw-ban-sucks" target="_blank">as of July</a>.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 3327635, member: 12952"] [URL="http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau"]California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws[/URL] [SIZE=5][B][URL='http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/25/california-bill-would-criminalize-restau']California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws[/URL][/B] Calderon, the Democratic majority leader in California's lower house, has introduced a [URL='https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1884']bill[/URL] to stop sit-down restaurants from offering customers straws with their beverages unless they specifically request one. Under Calderon's law, a waiter who serves a drink with an unrequested straw in it would face up to 6 months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. This isn't just Calderon's crusade. The California cities of San Luis Obispo and Davis both passed straws-on-request laws last year, and Manhattan Beach maintains a prohibition on all disposable plastics. And up in Seattle, food service businesses won't be allowed to offer plastic straws [I]or[/I] utensils [URL='http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/11/seattles-straw-ban-sucks']as of July[/URL].[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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