Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a criminal offense of petty misdemeanor disposal of solid waste for illegally dumping one to ten cubic yards of solid waste in a place other than a permitted solid waste management system.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Health, and the Director of Environmental Management for the County of Hawaii. Comments on the measure were submitted by the Windward Ahupua`a Alliance.

Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to address the growing problem of illegal dumping in the State by creating a new criminal offense of petty misdemeanor disposal of solid waste. Further, this measure also clarifies the felony disposal of solid waste offense.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, non-substantive changes for purposes of clarity, inserting a savings clause, and making the measure effective upon its approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1430, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.