STAND. COM. REP. NO.659

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 319

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 319, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require counties with a population of five hundred thousand or more to establish a program for recycling food waste.

Under this bill, food establishments, which include restaurants, food courts, markets, food manufacturers and processors, catering establishments, hospitals serving prepared patient meals, schools who serve a certain number of meals, and businesses that produce food waste must participate. There are exceptions if a facility generates less than fifty gallons of food waste per week or if the disposal charge for disposing of the food waste at a recycling facility exceeds the tipping fee or disposal charge for the waste. The bill also allows the counties to assess a food waste recycling surcharge to partially cover the costs of this program, and makes a blank appropriation for start up costs for the initial staffing and program establishment.

Your Committee finds that the food waste recycling program will provide much-needed help in reducing waste and conserving our limited landfill space.

 

Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical amendments to further clarify the purpose of the bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 319, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 319, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair