PIERRE — The South Dakota Senate agreed that cities should be prohibited from banning plastic bags, containers and straws.

After a 25-minute debate that included discussion about firearms, the chemical BPA, marijuana and hemp, the Senate passed Senate Bill 54 in a 22-12 vote. The bill prohibits local governments in South Dakota from banning plastic straws and "auxiliary containers" that include bags, cans, cups, bottles, packages and containers.

The bill will now move to the House for consideration.

Bill sponsor Sen. John Wiik, R-Big Stone City, began his comments by saying no one wants to see dirty water or plastic bags blowing in the wind.

"Littering is wrong and is against the law," he said.

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Nothing in the bill will force a business owner to offer plastic bags or straws, he said, but senators should remember the residents who live in the rural areas around cities who don't have a say in a city's ordinances, but are subject to its commerce practices.

Sens. V. J. Smith, R-Brookings, and Craig Kennedy, D-Yankton, said they were concerned the bill is taking away local control. A local government's decision made in the best interests of that community should be respected, Smith said.

"Sometimes I wonder when we move forward with a 'We know better than you' attitude, I don't think that's always helpful," he said.

More than a dozen states have preemptively prohibited on plastic bans. Sen. Brock Greenfield, R-Clark, said the Legislature can't wait to enact the prohibition.

"There's a movement afoot to change local ordinances in order that we create chaos within states and create a patchwork of different ordinances and regulations so that the states ultimately have to act," he said.

People sometimes push to get officials put in place at the local level who will support their stances, he said, and they walk "all over" state's rights in the process.

Clark went on to say there are people all over the United States seeking to undermine Second Amendment gun rights. Then BPA was banned federally after states enacted bans on the chemical, he said. Marijuana is federally banned, but now states have legalized it and a "chaotic situation" has come about because of that, he said, adding that the same can be said about legalizing industrial hemp.

Sen. Troy Heinert, D-Mission, questioned whether they were still debating legislation about plastics.

"I've never seen plastic mentioned in the Constitution. That, to me, was trying to divert what we're talking about," Heinert said. "This isn't a vast conspiracy of 'we're trying to take your guns away.'"