Report Title:

Deposit Beverage Container; Two Liter Containers

Description:

Amends the definition of deposit beverage container to allow the redemption of two liter (67.7 fluid ounces) bottles.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1945

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to solid waste.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 342G-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "deposit beverage container" to read as follows

""Deposit beverage container" means the individual, separate, sealed glass, polyethylene terephthalte, high density polyethylene, or metal container less than or equal to [sixty-four] sixty-seven and six tenths fluid ounces, used for containing, at the time of sale to the consumer, a deposit beverage intended for use or consumption in this State."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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