Bill Text: HI HB1110 | 2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Tier Ii Filing Fees For Reporting Of Hazardous Substances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-07 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on PBS with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Oshiro excused (1). [HB1110 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-HB1110-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO TIER II FILING FEES FOR REPORTING OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to increase the Hawaii Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know (HEPCRA) Act, Tier II filing fee from $100 to $200. In fiscal year 2014-2015, eight hundred eighty-nine facilities, civilian and military, paid a total of $68,300 in filing fees. These fees are collected from facilities that use, store, or manufacture hazardous substances and are deposited into the environmental response revolving fund.
Tier II filings fees are used by county local emergency planning committees to conduct joint emergency planning response training, to purchase specialized equipment, and for hazardous materials emergency preparedness activities. As HEPCRA operational and equipment costs have risen, it has become necessary to increase the fee to maintain the emergency preparedness and response capabilities of the county first responders who respond to hazardous material incidents statewide.
SECTION 2. Section 128E-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§128E-9 Filing fees. Facilities
that are required to report according to section 128E-6(a)(2), shall remit [$100]
$200 with each submission of chemical inventory forms or Tier II forms
to the commission by March 1 of each year. All moneys collected by the
department pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the state treasury
and accrue to the credit of the environmental response revolving fund
established in section 128D-2."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2090.
Report Title:
Hawaii Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act; Tier II Fee Increase
Description:
Changes the Hawaii Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act, Tier II filing fee from $100 to $200 to provide needed preparedness resources to Local Area Planning Committees.
(HB1110 HD1)
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