Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Science, Arts, and Technology and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3163 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an advisory council to review, analyze, and develop programs for the purchase, use, and disposal of electronic products in a manner that reduces its negative impacts on the environment by state departments and agencies.

The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism as well as the Department of Health offered comments on the measure.

Your Committees find that this advisory counsel represents a proactive approach on the part of state government in addressing the environmental as well as health-related harms associated with the disposal of electronic products.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Science, Arts, and Technology and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3163 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.