STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2307

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2628

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2628 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PAPER WASTE REDUCTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require telephone utilities and companies that publish or distribute telephone directories to distribute directories only upon receiving written authorization executed by the customer.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Sierra Club.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by Hawaiian Telecom and Local Insight Media.

     Your Committee finds that limiting the distribution of telephone directories to those consumers who have specifically requested them will reduce litter from unclaimed directories and contribute to the effort to reduce paper waste.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2628, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2628, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

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RON MENOR, Chair