Bill Text: HI HB2083 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Waste Diversion
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-30 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and McDermott, Takai, Woodson excused (3). [HB2083 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-HB2083-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SOLID WASTE REDUCTION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the State should lead by example while moving toward a more environmentally sustainable future. An effective way to accomplish increased environmental sustainability is to diminish the need for landfills by diverting food and green waste from landfills to composting and energy production.
The purpose of this Act is to continue the progress to long-term environmental sustainability by authorizing the Hawaii public housing authority to enter into contracts with private businesses to remove food and green waste from public housing projects to divert these wastes from the landfill waste stream.
SECTION 2. Section 356D-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The authority may:
(1) Sue and be sued;
(2) Have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
(3) Make and execute contracts and other instruments
necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers[;], which may
include contracts with private businesses to remove "food waste" and
"green waste", as those terms are defined in section 342G-1, from
public housing projects;
(4) Adopt bylaws and rules in accordance with chapter 91 for its organization, internal management, and to carry into effect its purposes, powers, and programs.
(5) Sell, lease, rent, hold, maintain, use, and operate any property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, in support of its purposes, powers, and programs; provided that the sale of real property shall be subject to legislative approval;
(6) Receive by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise from any source, any property, real, personal, or mixed, intangible or tangible, absolutely or in trust, to be used and disposed of, either the principal or the income thereof, for the benefit only of the residents assisted by its programs; provided that no gift to the authority that has an estimated value of $1,000 or more shall be accepted unless approved or confirmed by the board; and
(7) Engage the services of volunteers as deemed appropriate by the authority without regard to chapter 76, 89, 90, 103, or 103D."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2525.
Report Title:
Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Waste Diversion
Description:
Clarifies that HPHA is authorized to contract with private businesses to remove food and green waste from public housing projects. Effective July 1, 2525. (HB2083 HD1)
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