Bill Text: HI HB2483 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Environmental Protection; Single-use Checkout Bags; Fee; Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-16 - (H) Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 754). [HB2483 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2483-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  314-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2483

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2483 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage collaboration and cooperation among county, state, and federal agencies, policy makers, businesses, and other community partners to plan for the impacts of climate change and avoid, minimize, or mitigate the loss of life, land, and property of future generations.

 

     The Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; The Nature Conservancy; the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; Windward Ahupua‘a Alliance; and four individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and the Building Industry Association of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2483, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2483, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

		____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair