Bill Text: HI HB2025 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Deposit Beverage Container Fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2025 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2025-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER FEE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 342G-117, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The department shall evaluate the handling
fee at least once per year. Beginning
on August 1, 2021, and every August 1 thereafter, the handling fee shall be
changed by the percentage, if any, by which the Consumer Price Index for All
Urban Consumers in the Honolulu area published by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the federal Department of Labor for that calendar year exceeds
the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the prior calendar year;
provided that, pursuant to subsection (a), the handling fee shall be not less
than the prevailing deposit beverage container fee. If the department changes the amount of the
handling fee, the department shall publish notice of the change within thirty
days of its determination."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
Deposit Beverage Container Fee; Handling Fee; CPI; Certified Redemption Centers
Description:
Annually adjusts the handling fee for certified redemption centers based upon percentage changes in the Consumer Price Index for the Honolulu area. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
