STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2529

                                   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 Ways and Means, 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 bill is to improve enforcement of the
glass advance disposal fee law.

     The bill accomplishes this by making the fee applicable to
all glass importers and changing the penalty provision from a
civil to an administrative action.

     Your Committee finds that it is important to close the
loophole in the law that allows glass importers to avoid paying
an advance disposal fee by not registering with the Department of
Commerce and Consumer Affairs.  Your Committee also agrees with
the intent of this measure to impose administrative fines without
the necessity of going to court, as the latter is a more
expensive and time consuming effort.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2545 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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