Bill Text: HI HB1760 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Lieutenant Governor; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-04 - The committee(s) on EEP recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1760 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HB1760-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1760
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to the deposit beverage container program.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.   The lieutenant governor shall establish a transition plan to transfer management and net revenues of the deposit beverage container program, established pursuant to part VIII of chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the counties.  The lieutenant governor may hire consultants to assist in developing and drafting the transition plan, which shall be implemented by January 1, 2016.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the lieutenant governor to develop a transition plan to transfer management and net revenues of the deposit beverage container program, established pursuant to part VIII of chapter 342G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to the counties.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the office of the lieutenant governor for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  The lieutenant governor shall submit the transition plan and proposed legislation to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2015.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2014.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Deposit Beverage Container Program; Lieutenant Governor; Appropriation

 

Description:

Requires the lieutenant governor to establish a transition plan to transfer the deposit beverage container program to the counties.  Authorizes the lieutenant governor to hire consultants to assist in developing the plan.  Appropriates funds for FY 2014-2015 for the lieutenant governor to establish the plan.

 

 

 

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