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HB 1458An Act providing for duty to place shopping cart corrals near parking spaces reserved for individuals with disabilities and for enforcement.

Congress · introduced 2025-05-13

Latest action: Referred to COMMERCE, May 13, 2025

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  1. · house Referred to COMMERCE, May 13, 2025

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Printer's No. 1711 · 2,847 characters · source document

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PRINTER'S NO.   1711

                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                       HOUSE BILL
                       No. 1458
                                               Session of
                                                 2025

     INTRODUCED BY SANCHEZ, GIRAL, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, BURGOS, MALAGARI,
        HILL-EVANS, KENYATTA AND GREEN, MAY 13, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, MAY 13, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Providing for duty to place shopping cart corrals near parking
 2      spaces reserved for individuals with disabilities and for
 3      enforcement.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6   Section 1.   Short title.
 7      This act shall be known and may be cited as the Accessibility
 8   to Shopping Cart Corrals Act.
 9   Section 2.   Definitions.
10      The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
11   have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
12   context clearly indicates otherwise:
13      "Parking area."    A lot or other property provided by a retail
14   establishment for the use of customers to park automobiles or
15   other vehicles while doing business in that establishment.
16      "Shopping cart."    A basket which is mounted on wheels, or a
17   similar device, generally used in a retail establishment by a
18   customer for the purpose of transporting goods of any kind.
 1   Section 3.   Duty to place shopping cart corrals near parking
 2                spaces reserved for individuals with disabilities.
 3      (a)   Duty.--A retail establishment that provides shopping
 4   carts for use by customers shall place a shopping cart corral or
 5   cart collection system in the retail establishment's parking
 6   area within 20 feet of each parking space reserved for
 7   individuals with disabilities as required by the Americans with
 8   Disabilities Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-336, 104 Stat. 327).
 9      (b)   Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be
10   construed to prevent a retail establishment from relocating a
11   shopping cart corral or cart collection system constructed
12   before the effective date of this subsection or constructing an
13   additional shopping cart corral or cart collection system on or
14   after the effective date of this subsection to comply with the
15   requirements of subsection (a).
16   Section 4.   Enforcement.
17      An individual aggrieved by a violation of section 3(a) may
18   bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction to
19   enforce compliance with section 3(a) and obtain injunctive
20   relief or other appropriate relief.
21   Section 5.   Effective date.
22      This act shall take effect in 180 days.




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Who matters

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#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Benjamin V. Sanchez (D, state_lower PA-153)sponsor05
2Carol Hill-Evans (D, state_lower PA-95)cosponsor01
3Danilo Burgos (D, state_lower PA-197)cosponsor01
4G. Roni Green (D, state_lower PA-190)cosponsor01
5Johanny Cepeda-Freytiz (D, state_lower PA-129)cosponsor01
6Jose Giral (D, state_lower PA-180)cosponsor01
7Malcolm Kenyatta (D, state_lower PA-181)cosponsor01
8Steven R. Malagari (D, state_lower PA-53)cosponsor01

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0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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  1. 2026-05-20 · was referred to Pennsylvania House Commerce Committee · pa-leg

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