STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1810

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1947

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1947, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation of $10,000,000 out of the Deposit Beverage Container Deposit Special Fund for continued operation of the Deposit Beverage Container Program.

 

     The Department of Health testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by 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. 1947, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1947, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair