STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2234

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3006

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 3006 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to reestablish the $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge to assist the Department of Health in its permitting, monitoring, and enforcement activities regarding used tire management, collection, recycling, and disposal and to require the surcharge to be paid within ninety days after the importer receives the tires.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Environmental Services of the City and County of Honolulu, and one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association and one individual.

     Your Committees find that though the tire surcharge established in 2000 was helpful to fund an initial cleanup of used tires, without adequate monitoring and enforcement, the tires merely piled up once more. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the language establishing the $1 motor vehicle tire surcharge;

     (2)  Inserting language to establish a task force that shall study ways to control or prevent the problem of abandoned tires; and

     (3)  Changing the effective date from July 1, 2012, to upon approval.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Energy and Environment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3006, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3006, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair