Report Title:

Electronic Waste Recycling

 

Description:

Makes clarifying amendments to the electronic waste recycling act.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1272

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to electronic waste recycling.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 339D-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

     1.  By amending the definition of "covered electronic device" to read:

     ""Covered electronic device":

     (1)  Means a computer, computer printer, computer monitor, or portable computer[,] with a screen size greater than four inches measured diagonally; and

     (2)  Shall not include:

         (A)  A covered electronic device that is a part of a motor vehicle or any component part of a motor vehicle assembled by or for a motor vehicle manufacturer or franchised dealer, including replacement parts for use in a motor vehicle;

         (B)  A covered electronic device that is functionally or physically a part of a larger piece of equipment designed and intended for use in an industrial, commercial, or medical setting, including diagnostic, monitoring, or control equipment;

         (C)  A covered electronic device that is contained within a clothes washer, clothes dryer, refrigerator, refrigerator and freezer, microwave oven, conventional oven or range, dishwasher, room air conditioner, dehumidifier, or air purifier; or

         (D)  A telephone of any type."

     2.  By amending the definition of "manufacturer" to read:

     ""Manufacturer" means any existing person:

     (1)  Who manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices under a brand that it owns or owned or is or was licensed to use, other than a license to manufacture covered electronic devices for delivery exclusively to or at the order of the licensor;

     (2)  Who sells or sold covered electronic devices manufactured by others under a brand that the seller owns or owned or is or was licensed to use, other than a license to manufacture covered electronic devices for delivery exclusively to or at the order of the licensor;

     (3)  Who manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices without affixing a brand;

     (4)  Who manufactures or manufactured covered electronic devices to which it affixes or affixed a brand that it neither owns or owned nor is or was licensed to use; or

     (5)  For whose account covered electronic devices manufactured outside the United States are or were imported into the United States; provided that if at the time such covered electronic devices are or were imported into the United States and another person has registered as the manufacturer of the brand of the covered electronic devices, this paragraph shall not apply;

provided that the term "manufacturer" shall not include persons [located in the State] who manufacture [specialized] computers and have sales of no more than one hundred computers per year."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

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