Bill Text: HI HB2644 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Solid Waste; Disposal Surcharge

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 664). [HB2644 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2644-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2741

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2644

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to apply the solid waste disposal surcharge to waste that is deposited in a landfill, incinerator, or waste-to-energy facility and to waste that is shipped to out-of-state facilities for disposal.

 

     Four organizations submitted comments on this measure.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     The solid waste disposal surcharge of thirty five cents per ton applies only to waste that is disposed of at solid waste disposal facilities within the State.  Solid waste collected for out-of-state shipment is not subject to the solid waste disposal surcharge even though it is regulated by the Office of Solid Waste Management.  Additionally, new facilities and technologies are emerging that dispose of solid waste but do not meet the current statutory definition of solid waste disposal facility and thus the surcharge does not apply.  Your Committees find that this measure will clarify that the solid waste management surcharge applies to all solid waste disposal facilities that are regulated by the Office of Solid Waste Management and receive solid waste for ultimate disposal through landfilling, incineration, or through a waste-to-energy facility whether in in-state or out-of-state. 

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing the purpose section and renumbering the sections; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, International and Intergovernmental Affairs,

 

____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair