STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1280

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 899

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 899, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to restore the exemption from paying a pro rata share of central service expenses of state government for the deposit beverage container deposit special fund.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the exemption for deposit beverage container deposit revenues, which was removed by the Legislature in 2009, should be restored because these revenues are designated for redemptions to consumers.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion.

 

     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. 899, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 899, H.D. 2, 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