Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3105, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the reverse vending machine rebate program to persons who are not dealers or recyclers.

Your Committee finds that this measure provides an incentive for persons who are not dealers or recyclers to make reverse vending machines available to the public. Additional reverse vending machines will increase consumer convenience with regard to the deposit beverage container law and help to further reduce the negative impacts of solid waste on our communities and the environment in general.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3105, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3105, S.D. 2.