STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3563

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1570

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1570, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require lessors of rental motor vehicles to provide an option for renters of motor vehicles to make a voluntary contribution to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to help preserve and protect Hawaii's environment.

 

     For purposes of a public hearing, your Committee circulated a proposed S.D. 1 (Proposed Draft) of the measure, and notified the public that your Committee would be accepting testimony on the Proposed Draft, which authorizes the Agribusiness Development Corporation to enter into contracts with private businesses to remove select municipal solid waste, glass, and food and green waste from the waste stream for use in other business sectors, provided that the contracts benefit agriculture and agriculture-related projects.

 

Your Committee received testimony in support of the Proposed Draft from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Agribusiness Development Corporation, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai`i, and the Hawaii Cattlemen's Council.

 

     Testimony in opposition to the Proposed Draft was received from the City and County of Honolulu and League of Women Voters Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the additional revenue source created by the H.D. 1 version of the measure will support the ability of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to carry out its mission to protect, conserve, and manage the State's limited natural resources.  Accordingly, your Committee recommends passage of the H.D. 1 version of the measure rather than the Proposed Draft.

 

     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. 1570, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair