STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1514

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1015

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide an exemption from the deposit beverage container program for commercial passenger vessels.

Your Committee finds that this measure will allow an exemption for certain marine vessels and air carriers from the requirements of the deposit beverage container program if the deposit beverage container is sold and delivered to a commercial passenger vessel and the deposit beverage container is intended for use and consumption on the commercial passenger vessel. In order to qualify for this exemption, the entity operating the commercial passenger vessel must have a recycling plan that is approved by the Department of Health.

This measure will also allow redemption centers to accept flattened deposit beverage containers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding a conforming amendment to section 342G-113(e); and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for clarity and consistency.

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 H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1015, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair