STAND. COM. REP. NO. 71

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 178

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 178 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD WASTE RECYCLING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a three-year pilot project in one or more schools, to be selected by the Department of Education, in partnership with the Department of Health, for recycling food waste as part of the State's integrated solid waste management plans.

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by one state department, and testimony in opposition to the measure was submitted by one state department.

     Your Committees find that it is important to promote the State's policy of re-use and recycling of solid and liquid wastes through this food waste recycling pilot program.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 178 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Education and Housing,

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair