Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2484 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

The Department of Health (DOH), Cartel-Hawaii, and the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association testified in support of this measure.

Tire and lead-acid battery dumping is a growing problem in the state. Not only are these items unsightly and a blight on our pristine environment, but they are also health and environmental hazards. Since the original intent of the law was to give consumers an incentive to leave their old tires and batteries at the dealers rather than taking them home and dumping them, flexibility should also be given to tire retailers to list the costs of disposal as a separate charge in order for them to recoup some of the disposal costs they incur.

Moreover, your Committees feel that DOH needs greater flexibility to enforce lead-acid battery violations and that this measure provides the mechanism for DOH to streamline its enforcement efforts.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, conformity, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2484, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2484, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.