THE SENATE
THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Senator Carol Fukunaga, Chair
Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2011

DATE:

Monday, February 14, 2011

TIME:

1:15 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016
State Capitol
415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB1363
Testimony

Status

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.
Requires businesses to collect a 25 cent offset fee for distribution of every non-reusable checkout bag.  Provides for the department of health to collect seventy-five per cent of offset fee to be used for administration and enforcement.  Allows businesses to retain twenty-five per cent of offset fee as taxable income.  Exempts offset fee from excise tax.

ENE/EDT, WAM

No testimony will be accepted.

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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