Click photo to enlarge Kelly Aguirre, assistant customer service
manager at Woodlands Market, puts groceries into a paper bag on
Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, in Kentfield, Calif. Patricia Mejia,
left, works the register. Plastic bags have been banned in
unincorporated Marin County since Jan. 1, 2012. (IJ
photo/Frankie Frost) Frankie Frost  MARC LEVINE didn't mess
around with the first piece of legislation he has co-authored in
the Assembly.  Assembly Bill 158 would ban plastic bags in
California by 2015. The San Rafael Democrat is one of several
co-authors.  A similar ban got stuck in the state Senate in
2011. In 2010, a bag bill backed by grocers and Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger didn't make it out of the state Legislature due
to heavy opposition from the plastics industry.  A statewide ban
on plastic bags makes far more sense than the piecemeal approach
that is being applied by counties and cities.  In Marin, for
example, a county ban on plastic bags at checkout stands in
grocery stores went into effect in January 2