STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2740

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3114

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3114, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE COMMUNITY WORK DAY PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation from the Hawaii Tourism Authority's statewide product enrichment program fund and the Department of Health's deposit beverage container deposit special fund for the community work day program.

The community work day program, which is part of the national Keep America Beautiful program, was previously administered by the State's litter control office, established by chapter 339, Hawaii Revised Statutes. However, the office, which existed from 1977 until 1996, was administratively closed due to budgetary constraints. In its time, the office provided a critical, necessary, and strategic service to the public in serving as the focal point to plan, coordinate, and implement litter control efforts.

The appropriation made by this measure is twenty-five per cent from the Hawaii Tourism Authority statewide product enrichment program fund and seventy-five per cent from the Department of Health's deposit beverage container deposit special fund. Your Committee finds that the unsightly nature of litter impacts the tourism industry and warrants an appropriation from the product enrichment program fund. Your Committee further finds that the community work day program yields a great amount of recyclable material and is a recycling education and demonstration project for purposes of the deposit beverage container deposit special fund.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

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. 3114, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3114, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair