Bill Text: HI HB2125 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Environmental Protection; Plastic Checkout Bags; Offset Fee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-12 - (H) Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with Representative(s) Marumoto voting no and Representative(s) Bertram, Cabanilla, Takumi excused. [HB2125 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2125-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  344-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2125

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2125, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the production of waste and encourage recycling and reuse by establishing a 10 cent per disposable checkout bag offset fee.

 

     The Conservation Council for Hawaii, Sierra Club–Hawaii Chapter, Surfrider Foundation, and many concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health, Hawaii Food Industry Association, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, American Chemistry Council, and Hawaii Restaurant Association opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Designating the entire fee to remain with the businesses to enable them to educate consumers on recycling and reuse;

 

     (2)  Charging a 10 cent offset fee for disposable plastic newspaper bags and plastic laundry or dry cleaning bags beginning on December 21, 2012;

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to January 1, 2011; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2125, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2125, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair