Bill Text: HI SB2822 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Consumer Electronics; Recycling; Task Force

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-27 - (S) Act 078, 4/26/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1179). [SB2822 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2822-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1652-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2822

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect Hawaii's health and environment by establishing, within the Department of Health, the Hawaii Electric Device Recycling Task Force to make recommendations for a workable recycling program for electric devices and household batteries.

 

     The Department of Health, Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Reynolds Recycling, Consumer Electronics Association, and TechNet testified in support of this measure.  The National Electrical Manufacturers Association testified in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the provision that included household batteries as part of the focus of the task force in making recommendations for a recycling program; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair