STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1000

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 938
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 938, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LITTER CONTROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Health (DOH) to implement a statewide litter
control campaign.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Health, the Department of Transportation, the Mayor
of Maui County, two Maui County Council members, Maui Economic
Opportunity, Inc., Community Work Day Program, and three
concerned citizens.

     Your Committee finds that the Community Work Day Program, a
nonprofit agency dedicated to environmental preservation,
beautification, and education, has a proven track record of
coordinating volunteers to control litter.  A statewide litter
control program coordinated by Community Workday Program would
leverage $6 of private funds for every $1 of public funds
invested in the program and provide a cost-effective, community-
based litter control program across the State.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of H.B. No. 938, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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