STAND. COM. REP. NO. 589

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1131

       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 S.B. No. 1131, 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 establish a tiered glass advance disposal fee based on the capacity of the glass container.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health; Department of Environmental Services, City and County of Honolulu; and Department of Public Works, County of Kauai.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States; Hawaii Food Industry Association; and Retail Merchants of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will increase the glass advance disposal fee and thus enable the Department of Health to increase funding to all counties to bolster their glass recycling efforts.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, 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 S.B. No. 1131, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1131, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

____________________________

DAVID Y. IGE, Chair