STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2640

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2822

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a task force to recommend a workable electric devices recycling program.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Goodsill Anderson Quinn and Stifel; and Retail Merchants of Hawaii.  Your Committee received written comments from Tech America.

Your Committee finds that disposal of consumer electric products into Hawaii's limited landfills have the potential to cause environmental damage.  Authorizing stakeholders to study electric device recycling and present recommendations will assist in securing a viable outcome agreeable to all parties involved in the sale, use, and disposal of electrics devices while protecting the environment.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Clarifying that the Director of Health shall be the designating authority for various members of the task force;

(2)  Adding that the task force report to the Legislature shall include proposed legislation, if any; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2822, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2822, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair