THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

 

COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator J. Kalani English, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

Senator Carol Fukunaga, Chair

Senator Glenn Wakai, Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, AND HOUSING

Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz, Chair

Senator Malama Solomon, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 9, 2012

TIME:

2:45 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 225

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2511

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

Requires businesses in the State to collect a fee for single-use checkout bags provided to a customer.  Allows businesses to keep twenty per cent of the fees for the first year of the program and ten per cent of the fees thereafter, subject to income and general excises taxes.  Requires fees to be collected on single-use checkout bags not prohibited by county ordinance.  Deposits $800,000 annually of fees into a special account in the general fund for costs relating to the single-use checkout buy fee, $11,000,000 into the natural area reserves fund, and the remainder into the general fund.  Requires reports to the legislature.

 

ENE/EDT/WLH, WAM

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Environment.

 

Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Carol Fukunaga

Chair

 

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Senator Mike Gabbard

Chair

 

 

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Senator Donovan M. Dela Cruz

Chair