Bill Text: HI HR23 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Resolution 23 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Vermicomposting; Income Tax Credit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-31 - (H) Referred to EEP, FIN, referral sheet 5 [HR23 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HR23-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	23
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

requesting a study to determine the means of establishing a vermicomposting income tax credit for hawaii taxpayers.

WHEREAS, vermicomposting is the process of using composting worms to process organic waste or garbage into usable compost; and

WHEREAS, vermicomposting is an efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly method of disposing of organic waste; and

WHEREAS, fifty thousand tons of food waste alone is generated on Oahu annually; and

WHEREAS, if only five thousand households, generating an average of four pounds of food waste per week, shifted from flushing or throwing food waste away to vermicomposting, five hundred-twenty tons of waste could be diverted from Hawaii's wastestream each year; and

WHEREAS, a vermicomposting income tax credit would provide an incentive for taxpayers to dispose of their organic waste by vermicomposting; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, that the Department of Taxation is requested to conduct a study to determine the means of establishing a vermicomposting income tax credit; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health and the Department of Agricuture are requested to assist the Department of Taxation in conducting this study; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Taxation is requested to report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Taxation, the Director of Health, and the Chairperson of the Board of Agriculture.