Bill Text: HI SB670 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Single-use Plastics.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Referred to EDT/AEN, CPN/JDC. [SB670 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2025-SB670-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO SINGLE-USE PLASTICS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The legislature further finds that hotels and other lodging establishments in the State frequently provide complimentary toiletries that are packaged in single-use plastic containers. This does not align with the Hawaii tourism authority's strategic plan, which cites the goals of promoting sustainable tourism, preserving natural resources, and advocating for responsible tourism practices that minimize negative environmental impacts. Some hotels in the State have already transitioned away from single-use plastics, instead providing bulk dispensers for personal care products or complimentary toiletries in packaging made of sustainable materials. Therefore, the legislature finds that there is an opportunity to reduce harmful plastic waste in Hawaii while making the visitor industry more sustainable. The legislature also finds that California, Illinois, New York, and Washington have passed laws to phase out single plastic use toiletries in hotels.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to prohibit lodging establishments in the State from providing personal care products that are packaged in small plastic containers in certain spaces of the lodging establishment.
SECTION 2. Chapter 342H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part II to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§342H- Personal care products; small plastic containers;
lodging establishments; prohibited. (a) Beginning on:
(1) January 1, 2027, for lodging
establishments with more than fifty sleeping room accommodations; and
(2) January 1, 2029, for lodging
establishments with fifty or fewer sleeping room accommodations,
no lodging establishment shall provide personal
care products packaged in small plastic containers to any person staying in a sleeping
room accommodation, in any space within a sleeping room accommodation, or in any
bathroom used by the public or guests.
(b) A lodging establishment may:
(1) Use bulk dispensers of personal care
products; and
(2) Provide personal care products packaged
in a container made from non-plastic materials to an individual, upon request,
at a place other than:
(A) A sleeping room accommodation;
(B) A space within a sleeping room
accommodation; or
(C) In a bathroom used by the public or
guests.
(c) The department may inspect any
sleeping room accommodation and bathroom used by the public or guests of a
lodging establishment and shall issue a citation for any violation of
subsection (a). Any lodging
establishment that violates subsection (a) shall be subject to a civil penalty
of $500 for the first violation and $2,000 for a second or subsequent
violation. The attorney general may
bring an action to impose a civil penalty pursuant to this subsection. Each day of continued violation under this section
shall constitute a separate and distinct offense for which the lodging
establishment may be penalized.
(d) Nothing in this section shall
prohibit the enactment or implementation of any county ordinance that is more
stringent than this section.
(e) The department may adopt rules
pursuant to chapter 91 necessary to implement this section.
(f) For the purposes of this
section:
"Lodging establishment" means an establishment that contains
one or more sleeping room accommodations that are rented or otherwise provided
to the public, including a hotel, condominium hotel, motel, resort, bed and
breakfast home, transient vacation rental, transient accommodations, or hosted
rental. "Lodging
establishment" does not include a hospital, nursing home, residential
retirement community, prison, jail, correctional facility, homeless shelter,
boarding school, worker housing, or long-term rental home.
"Personal care product" means shampoo, hair conditioner, or
bath soap.
"Plastic" means any synthetic material made from organic
polymers, such as polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, or nylon, that can be
molded into shape while soft and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic
form. "Plastic" includes all
materials identified with resin codes one to seven, as provided in section
342H-42.
"Small plastic container" means a plastic bottle or other container
that has a capacity of six ounces or less and is not intended to be reused by
the end user.
"Transient accommodations" shall have the same meaning as in section 237D-1."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Lodging Establishments; Personal Care Products; Small Plastic Containers; Prohibition; Penalties
Description:
Prohibits lodging establishments in the State from providing personal care products packaged in small plastic containers in any sleeping room accommodations, space within sleeping room accommodations, and bathrooms used by the public or guests. Establishes civil penalties.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
