STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2240

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2358

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2358 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 for all state and county agency contracts that include disposal of liquid or solid waste, the statement of services performed shall include a receipt that the waste was received and disposed of at a licensed waste facility before full or partial payment is made for those contractual services.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health; Larry Jefts Farms, LLC; Kailua Neighborhood Board; and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services and General Contractors Association of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees find that contracted waste disposal companies are not currently required to disclose the location where liquid and solid waste is disposed.  It is in the best interest of the State that solid and liquid waste be properly disposed of and not dumped where it may be a threat to health, safety, or the environment.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology 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. 2358, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2358, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development, Environment, and Technology and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

 

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair