STAND. COM. REP. NO. 510

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1496
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1496 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL PURPOSE REVENUE BONDS
     FOR MEDICAL WASTE FACILITY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of
special purpose revenue bonds for a plasma waste conversion
facility.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Health (DOH).

     Your Committees find that hospitals and medical facilities
are having difficulty disposing of medical waste.  HEED, Inc., a
Hawaii corporation, plans to develop a plasma waste conversion
facility on Oahu and Molokai for the safe and proper disposal of
medical waste.  According to the DOH, this is a long-term
solution for the proper disposal of Hawaii's medical waste.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Labor and Environment
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1496, and recommend that
it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  SUZANNE CHUN-OAKLAND, Chair

 
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