THE TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
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Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair |
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Senator J. Kalani English, Vice Chair |
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Senator David Y. Ige, Chair |
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Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
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DATE: |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 |
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TIME: |
2:45 p.m. |
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PLACE: |
Conference Room 225 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
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RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT. 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 all fees into a special account in the environmental management special fund. Requires first $800,000 of all fees collected to be expended by DOH for costs relating to administrative, education, audit, compliance, and enforcement activities associated with the fee. Requires any remaining fees collected to be deposited in the environmental response revolving fund and the natural area reserve fund. Requires reports to the legislature. Makes dietary supplements that contain caffeine or carbonated water subject to the requirements of the deposit beverage container program. Part relating to dietary supplements takes effect 1/1/2013. (Proposed SD1)
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ENE/WAM |
Copies of the proposed SD1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website: www.capitol.hawaii.gov.
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
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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 David Y. Ige Chair |
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_____________________________________ Senator Mike Gabbard Chair |