STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1167-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2709

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 3

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE PRODUCTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen the law that requires public school facilities to give first preference, where feasible, to the purchase and use of cleaning and maintenance products that are environmentally sensitive.

     Specifically, this measure requires that public school facilities give preference to products that have been approved by the Design for the Environment program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, along with the existing preference for products approved by the Green Seal program.

     DOE and the American Chemistry Council testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Health offered comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2020.
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2709, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair