Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an unspecified amount of funds to the Department of Health (DOH) to expand its solid waste management enforcement and monitoring capabilities.

The Sierra Club-Hawaii Chapter supported this bill with amendments. DOH opposed this measure.

Your Committee finds that solid waste and illegal dumping are issues of statewide importance. Furthermore, aggressive enforcement of solid waste laws, monitoring of illegal dumping, and the apprehension of violators should be priorities of this state.

Your Committee has amended this bill by adding a provision that rewards a person who reports a violation of section 342H-30, Hawaii Revised Statutes, 50 percent of the fines collected when such a report results in a conviction.

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 S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3092, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.