STAND. COM. REP. NO.  243

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 904

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 904 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to promote recycling by:

     (1)  Improving the existing electronic and television recycling program; and

     (2)  Expanding the electronic and television recycling program to include electric devices that are currently disposed of in landfills.

The Department of Health, the City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services, Recycle Hawaii, Enterprise Honolulu, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  Retail Merchants of Hawaii; Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers; Whirlpool Corporation; Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute; Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association; Toy Industry Association, Inc.; and Jarden Consumer Solutions testified in opposition of this measure.  Sims Recycling Solutions provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Exempting toys and tools from the Electric Device Recycling and Recovering Act on January 1, 2015;

     (2)  Exempting from the definition of manufacturer persons who manufacture fewer than one hundred electric devices per year;

     (3)  Changing the definition of "white good" to include discarded major electrical and mechanical appliances made primarily of metal parts;

     (4)  Including within the definition of "white good" central air conditioners and boilers and excluding from the definition appliances of less than three cubic feet in volume before crushing; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 904, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 904, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Health,

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair