STAND. COM. REP. NO. 150

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 559

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 559 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish by January 1, 2011, a mandatory recycling program for all state buildings and facilities, public schools, and the University of Hawaii, to be administered by the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by two state departments.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that although this measure would be beneficial to reducing the amount of waste produced by the State, the Department of Accounting and General Services' lack of jurisdiction over the public schools and the University of Hawaii would make it difficult for the Department of Accounting and General Services to effectively establish such a recycling program over those facilities.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by exempting those facilities from the recycling program over which the Department of Accounting and General Services do not have authority, specifically, the public schools and the University of Hawaii.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Judiciary and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 559, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 559, 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 Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair