STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3384

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2509

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, 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 and intent of this measure is to assist communities affected by discarded or abandoned tires.

     Specifically, the measure appropriates funds for programs that promote the removal, from the landscape, of tires that have been illegally dumped, including county abandoned tire removal programs.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from a member of the Hawaii County Council, the Mikilua Valley Community Association, Life of the Land, and two individuals.  The Department of Health submitted written comments on the measure.

     Your Committee finds that discarded and abandoned tires are a persistent problem in the State and that they pose a threat to the environment and human health.  Accordingly, your Committee believes that programs promoting the removal of illegally dumped tires, including county abandoned tire removal programs, should be supported.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation from $250,000 to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair