City Council Chair Ernie Martin has talked to folks in the Hawaii Senate and House of Representatives and isn’t convinced they’ll be able to get it done, so he wants the city to just take care of the plastic bag ban itself.

“I don’t think they’re going to move this forward,” he said of the House specifically. If it makes it into conference committee, “it’s going to be a very tough sell.”

Martin wants the Public Works and Sustainability Committee to advance the bill out for final reading later this month at the full council.

UPDATE: They amended it to a fee, and moved it out to the full City Council. Full story coming soon.