STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2856

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2509

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES WITH THE REMOVAL OF MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to assist communities affected by discarded or abandoned tires by providing funds for programs promoting the removal of abandoned tires that have been illegally dumped from the landscape, including funding county abandoned tire removal programs.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Hawaii County Department of Environmental Management, Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association, Mikilua Valley Community Association, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that discarded motor vehicle tires continue to blight Hawaii's neighborhoods, particularly in rural and isolated areas.  With the repeal of the motor vehicle tire surcharge, the Department of Health lost a vital source of funding to promote tire recovery and prevent illegal dumping, and the subsequent personnel and operating budget cuts have made it difficult to address this critical issue.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $250,000; and

 

     (2)  Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair