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. 3028

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2644

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to apply the existing solid waste management surcharge to disposal at waste-to-energy facilities in the State or waste that is transferred to solid waste reduction facilities for disposal in a landfill, incineration facility, or waste-to-energy facility outside the State.

 

     Written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that many of the State's landfills are at or near capacity, requiring the expansion of existing landfills and the transfer of solid waste to out-of-state disposal facilities.  Your Committee also finds that to meet demands of waste disposal in the State, there are plans to expand or create new waste-to-energy facilities in the State.  Your Committee notes that the surcharge is presently not applied to persons or entities disposing of solid waste at permitted or unpermitted solid waste disposal facilities in the State.  Your Committee believes that, as a matter of equity, operations that either dispose of solid waste at a waste-to-energy facility in the State or transfer waste for disposal outside of the State should be similarly assessed the solid waste management surcharge.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of style and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2644, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair