STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2056

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2545
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Environment, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2545 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GLASS RECOVERY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the enforceability
of the glass advance disposal fee program by clarifying the
applicability of the statute to glass importers and inspection
procedures.  The bill also changes the method of imposing the
penalty for violation of the program from a civil to an
administrative action.  

     Testimony in favor of the measure was received from the
Department of Health and the Department of Public Works and Waste
Management, County of Maui.

     Your Committee finds that only those glass importers
registered with the Department of Health are required to pay the
advance disposal fee.  Companies can avoid paying the fee by
failing to register.  Your Committee is in agreement that the fee
be imposed on all glass container importers.  Also, changing the
method of imposing the penalty will facilitate enforcement
without going to court.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Environment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of S.B. No. 2545 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and
                                   Environment,



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                                   BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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