STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1648

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 178

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 178, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD WASTE RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the reduction of food waste by requiring the Department of Education (DOE) to partner with the Department of Health (DOH) to establish a three-year food waste recycling pilot project in one or more public schools.

 

     DOH opposed this bill.  DOE provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 178, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 178, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair