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. 734

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 725

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 725, S.D. 1, 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 management surcharge to all solid waste disposal facilities that receive solid waste for ultimate disposal through landfilling, incineration, or through a waste-to-energy facility, whether the waste is disposed of in-state or transferred out-of-state.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Loretta J. Fuddy, A.C.S.W., M.P.H., Acting Director, Department of Health.

 

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to the measure from Albert Shigemura, President, PVT Land Company; and the General Contractors Association.

 

Your Committee received comments on this measure from Gary M. Slovin on behalf of PVT Land Company.

 

     Your Committee finds that with advancements in the field of waste management, Hawaii's solid waste is being disposed of both in-state and out-of-state.  The Department of Health is responsible for processing permits for out-of-state waste disposal, but is unable to collect surcharges on that waste.  This measure enables the State to apply the solid waste disposal surcharge to waste being transferred out of state for disposal, helping to maintain sustainable funding levels for the State's solid waste program.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 725, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 725, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair