Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Water, Land, Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2006, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to clarify disposal options for used tires and notice requirements to consumers of new tires, to require annual, rather than quarterly, tire inventory payments by rental car companies, and to provide a broader array of options for the Department of Health (DOH) to enforce the State's special wastes disposal laws.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the DOH, the Rubber Manufacturers Association, Catrala-Hawaii, and the Hawaii Automobile Dealer's Association.

Your Committees find that this measure will provide the DOH with greater flexibility in determining how to pursue violations of Hawaii's special wastes disposal laws; specifically, DOH can pursue administrative action in most cases, whereas existing law usually requires a civil court action.

Your Committees find that this measure will also provide further incentive to tire consumers to properly dispose of used tires, by authorizing tire retailers to list the disposal fee as a separate charge.

Therefore, your Committees support this measure in an effort to promote responsible used tire disposal.

Your Committees amended this measure by increasing the number of used tires that may be accumulated at the point of collection by a tire wholesaler from 100 to 250.

Finally, your Committees also amended this measure to move the sunset date of the motor vehicle tire surcharge under section 342I-27, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from 2006 to 2003.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Water, Land, Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2006, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2006, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.