STAND. COM. REP. 2348

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2303

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2303 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to permit the counties to charge an advance disposal fee to support the disposal of hazardous goods and large goods.

The Sierra Club - Hawaii Chapter, DR Associates, and one individual testified in support of the measure. The Department of Health testified in opposition to the measure. The Office of Information Practices offered comments on the measure.

Your Committees find that this measure represents a new and innovative method of waste prevention and disposal by attempting to alleviate the high costs associated with the disposal of large goods and hazardous goods by permitting the counties to charge an advance disposal fee. This would encourage the use of renewable and non-hazardous resources and reduce the possibility of large goods and hazardous goods being illegally dumped.

Your Committees have amended the measure by:

(1) Making the imposition of the advance disposal fee permissive as opposed to mandatory on the part of the counties as well as exempting consumers that buy large goods or hazardous goods for household, family, or personal use from the advance disposal fee; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2303, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2303, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair