Bill Text: HI SB1131 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Recycling; Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with Representative(s) Cullen, Fale, Fukumoto, Hanohano, Har, Johanson, Kawakami, Ward, Yamane voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) McDermott, Oshiro voting no (2) and none excused (0). [SB1131 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1131-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1030

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1131

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1131, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote environmental protection and sustainability by establishing a tiered glass advance disposal fee based on the capacity of the glass container.

 

     The Department of Health; Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu; Conservation Council for Hawaii; Sierra Club, Hawai‘i Chapter; and Zero Waste Kauai testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Food Industry Association, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Wine Institute, Hawaii Liquor Wholesalers Association, Young's Market Company, and several individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee notes that this measure has been amended so that the listed glass advance disposal fees are unspecified.  Should the Committee on Finance consider this measure, your Committee respectfully requests that the Committee on Finance examine the amount of fees necessary for the Department of Health to effectively run the glass advance disposal fee program.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding provisions to clarify the history of the glass advance disposal fee and purpose of the current measure;

 

     (2)  Changing the listed glass advance disposal fee amounts to unspecified amounts;

 

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2713; 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 Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1131, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1131, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

		____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair