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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 745: Mattress stewardship program; established, report, civil penalty.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 745 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 9, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Mattress stewardship program; established, report, civil penalty. Primary sponsor: Amy Laufer (Democratic). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (November 18, 2024): Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Mattress stewardship program established; civil penalty. Prohibits the disposal of a mattress, as defined in the bill, in a landfill or an incinerator beginning January 1, 2028, and requires producers of mattresses sold at retail in the Commonwealth or a representative organization acting on a producer's behalf to submit a plan for the establishment of a mattress stewardship program. Such mattress stewardship program plan shall establish an assessment for all mattresses sold in the Commonwealth and a network of convenient and free collection sites for postconsumer mattresses, defined in the bill, that will facilitate higher rates of recycling and materials recovery for postconsumer mattresses. The bill establishes annual reporting requirements for mattress producers or representative organizations and establishes a Mattress Stewardship Program Advisory Board to advise on the proper implementation and sustainability of the mattress stewardship program. The bill also establishes the powers and duties of the Department of Environmental Quality as they relate to the bill and civil penalties for improper mattress disposal and violations of the mattress stewardship program.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Amy LauferPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse55
Nadarius ClarkCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse84
Creigh DeedsCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate11

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Left in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
  2. Continued to 2025 with substitute in Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (Voice Vote)
  3. Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24106693D-H1
  4. House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
  5. Impact statement from DPB (HB745)
  6. Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 (Voice Vote)
  7. Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
  8. Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (Voice Vote)
  9. Referred from Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
  10. Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
  11. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100377D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source