STAND. COM. REP. NO.  223-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2509

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2509 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES WITH THE REMOVAL OF MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to assist communities affected by discarded or abandoned tires by providing funds for the removal from the landscape of abandoned tires.

The Hawaii Automotive Dealers Association and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that funding be used for programs promoting removal from the landscape of abandoned tires that have been illegally dumped, including funding county programs established pursuant to Chapter 342I, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Should the House Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committee respectfully requests its consideration of the appropriation amount of $250,000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2509, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

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CHRIS LEE, Chair