STAND. COM. REP. 507
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 467
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 467, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to reduce litter in our State by:
(1) Creating a litter prevention and control program (Program);
(2) Creating a litter prevention and control advisory board to implement this Program; and
(3) Appropriating an unspecified amount of funds for the Program to be matched by private sector businesses.
The Retail Merchants of Hawaii, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of
Hawaii, the Pepsi Cola Bottling Group Hawaii, and the Legislative Center testified in support of this bill. The Department of Health and Hawaii Food Industry Association supported the intent of this bill.
Your Committee is also aware of the Governor's proposed appropriation of funds for environmental management. Your Committee, however, is concerned about how these funds will be expended and would like to ensure that these funds are expended through a grant-in-aid process to ensure accountability to the public.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that the $300,000 appropriation for each year of fiscal biennium 2003-2005 to fund and promote the Program is conditioned upon the requirement that the Solid Waste Division distribute these funds through a grant-in-aid process;
(2) Appropriating $2,000,000 for each year of fiscal biennium 2003-2005 to enable the counties to implement solid-waste management plans;
(3) Removing the provision regarding a public-private partnership;
(4) Setting forth certain requirements that must be met by the counties to receive the appropriation; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 467, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 467, H.D. 2, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection,
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____________________________ HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair |