Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) displays a long paper receipt as he discusses his bill to require businesses to offer electronic receipts in 2019 in Sacramento. Under his legislation, ...

First there was the plastic bag ban, and then the straw ban. And now, the Golden State is coming after paper. California may become the first state to require businesses to offer electronic receipts ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Those body-length receipts from retail stores are here to stay. A bill before the California Legislature would have banned paper receipts unless requested by a customer. But ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A bill that would ban long, paper receipts has cleared its first hurdle in the state legislature. The bill would require businesses that earn more than $1 million a year to give ...

SACRAMENTO — California would become the first state to require businesses to offer electronic receipts unless customers ask for paper copies under legislation proposed on Tuesday. Many businesses and ...

A bill in California’s state assembly takes aim at paper receipts and if passed, would ban businesses from handing customers receipts unless they specifically ask for it. In the new “Skip the Slip” ...

Reporting from Sacramento — Those glossy paper receipts that are often trashed before a shopper even leaves a store could become a relic of the past under a bill that cleared its first hurdle in the ...

More than three years after criticism from the paper industry and business groups torpedoed his bill to cut paper receipts, Assemblymember Phil Ting reintroduced his so-called Skip the Slip ...

Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, displays a long paper receipt as he discusses his bill to require businesses to offer electronic receipts, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. Under ...