STAND. COM. REP. NO. 705

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1496
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, 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,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of
special purpose revenue bonds for HEED, Inc., for the
construction of a plasma waste conversion facility for the safe
and proper disposal of medical waste.

     Your Committee finds that the issue of appropriate disposal
of medical waste is a serious one, and that the need for local
facilities to perform this task is pressing.  The facility will
service hospitals, clinics, laboratories, and other health care
providers throughout the State.  Development of a local facility
is appropriate and necessary.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by specifying Molokai as
the site of the proposed facility, and by making technical
nonsubstantive changes.

     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.

 
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1496, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1496, S.D. 1.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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