STAND. COM. REP. NO.  803

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 899

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to reinstate the Deposit Beverage Container Deposit Special Fund's exemption from deduction and transfer to the general fund of five percent of receipts for purposes of defraying the central service expenses of the State related to that Special Fund.

 

     The Department of Health; Department of Public Works, County of Kauai; Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; Aloha Glass Recycling, Inc.; Conservation Council for Hawaii; and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030; and

 

     (2)  Ensuring that the amendments made by this measure, to reinstate the exemption of the Special Fund from central service expense responsibility, will not be repealed when section 36-27(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, is reenacted on June 30, 2015, as provided by Act 79, Session Laws of Hawaii 2009.

 

     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 H.B. No. 899, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 899, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair