STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1966-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2612

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2612, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish and appropriate funds for a one-year reusable utensil pilot project at Department of Education schools on Molokai; and

(2) Require the Department of Education to submit interim and final reports to the Legislature on the feasibility of statewide implementation of a reusable utensil program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Kualapuu Public Conversion Charter School, Beach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawai‘i, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education and Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2022; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2612, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2612, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair