STAND. COM. REP. NO 520

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 498

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment, Government Operations, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 498 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require that beginning July 1, 2015, for all state and county agency contracts that include the disposal of liquid or solid waste, the statement for services performed shall include a receipt that the waste was received and disposed of at a licensed facility before full or partial payment is made.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Health, Kailua Neighborhood Board, Zero Waste Kauai, and two individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services.

 

     Your Committees find that the illegal disposal of liquid or solid waste is a problem for the State's natural resources and the environment.  Implementation of this measure will encourage the proper disposal of liquid or solid waste.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing "licensed waste management facility" and "licensed waste facility" throughout the measure with "permitted waste facility";

 

     (2)  Clarifying that the contract requirement applies to waste that requires disposal in a permitted waste facility;

 

     (3)  Inserting language to require that all contracts between private entities that include the disposal of liquid or solid waste that require disposal in a permitted waste facility include a provision that payment will only be made upon receipt of a statement for services performed that includes proof from a permitted waste facility showing that the waste was properly received and lawfully disposed of in an appropriate, permitted waste facility; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment, Government Operations, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 498, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 498, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 


Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment, Government Operations, and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair