STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3085

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2662

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2662, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION WASTE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to encourage and facilitate the recycling of construction and demolition waste.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Establishes a state and county bid preference for construction and demolition services that use the most recycled materials or recycle the most demolition materials;

(2) Updates the state building codes to include the latest edition of the International Green Construction Code; and

(3) Updates the state building codes to require the recycling of not less than twenty-five percent of non-hazardous construction, deconstruction, or demolition waste from public buildings and not less than twenty percent of non-hazardous construction, deconstruction, or demolition waste from private buildings.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Environmental Services; Hawai‘i Reef and Ocean Coalition; Re-use Hawaii; Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i; Mokulua High Performance Builder; and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Building Industry Association of Hawaii; General Contractors Association of Hawaii; American Institute of Architects, Hawaii State Council; and one individual.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office and Hawaii Gas.

Your Committee finds that construction and demolition waste account for approximately thirty percent of the material sent to landfills. Your Committee further finds that increasing the amount of recycled waste materials will help to reduce landfill use and increase environmental sustainability efforts of the construction industry.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that each priority offeror's bid amount for construction or demolition services procured by the State or any county shall not be more than ten percent greater or less than all other bids;

(2) Including the conversion of waste material to renewable gaseous fuel as a permissible form of recycling;

(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

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 S.B. No. 2662, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2662, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair