STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2634

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 75

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 75, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the Hawaii Battery Storage Recycling Task Force.

     Your Committees received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health.

     Your Committees find that this measure promotes the public health, safety, and welfare by establishing a task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature for a workable Hawaii recycling program for battery storage devices.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 75, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary and Labor,

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair