Bill Text: HI SB960 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 960 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Public Procurement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [SB960 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SB960-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	960
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO public PROCUREMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§103D- Beverages in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers; prohibition on using state funds to purchase. (a) Notwithstanding sections 103D-102(b)(3), (b)(4)(H), and (b)(4)(L), and 103D-305 to the contrary, no state agency shall use state funds for the purchase of beverages packaged in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers except for purchases:

(1) For public health and safety preparedness, emergency response, investigations, or extended deployments or activations of the:

(A) Office of hazard evaluation and emergency response of the department of health;

(B) Department of defense; or

(2) Made in response to circumstances in which there is a high risk of cross-contamination with non-potable or contaminated water;

(3) Related to the licensed blind vendor program, including purchases made from the Randolph-Sheppard revolving account or other funds in support of the blind vendor program;

(4) Of potable water by the department of land and natural resources for wildland firefighters of the division of forestry and wildlife;

(5) For which there are no reasonable alternatives to beverages in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers, such as large public events or circumstances in which large quantities of beverages are to be distributed for health and safety reasons; and

(6) Of an incidental nature in which only a single serving beverage is being purchased for immediate consumption.

(b) For the purposes of this subsection:

"Plastic bottle" shall have the same meaning as in section 342H-41.

"Rigid plastic container" shall have the same meaning as in section 342H-41.

"State agency" means any department, commission, council, board, bureau, authority, institution, legislative body, agency, committee, government corporation, or other establishment or office of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the State, including the office of Hawaiian affairs.

"State funds" means any moneys appropriated to or authorized to be expended by a state agency. "State funds" shall be construed broadly to include any moneys from any fund from which a state agency may make expenditure, whether the fund is within or outside of the state treasury."

SECTION 2. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2021.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Procurement Code; Government Purchases; Plastic Containers; Prohibition

Description:

Prohibits the expenditure of state funds by state agencies for the purchase of beverages in plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers, except under certain circumstances.

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