Bill Text: HI SB725 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Solid Waste; Disposal Surcharge

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB725 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB725-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 130

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 725

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 725 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOLID WASTE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to apply the solid waste disposal surcharge to waste that is deposited in landfills, incinerators, or waste-to-energy facilities, whether the waste is disposed of in-state or transferred out-of-state.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Loretta J. Fuddy, Department of Health.

 

     Your Committee finds that the changing waste management field includes waste-to-energy facilities that are proposing new technologies to which the current solid waste disposal surcharge would not apply and waste that is shipped out-of-state to which the current surcharge would not apply even though the Department of Health still must process the permits.  This measure is necessary to maintain sustainable funding levels for the State's solid waste program.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 725, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 725, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy and Environment,

 

		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair