Bill Text: HI HB2239 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Deposit Beverage Container Program; Dietary Supplements

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 659). [HB2239 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2239-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2728

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2239

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2239 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT BEVERAGE CONTAINER PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to remove the exemption for dietary supplements from the deposit beverage container program.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by one county agency and one organization.  One organization submitted comments and one organization submitted testimony in opposition.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

Your Committee finds that adding dietary supplement liquids, sometimes known as energy drinks, to the deposit beverage container program would result in additional income for the program and further improve recycling rates.

 

     Your Committee also finds Hawaii's recycling rate for beverage containers has reached eighty per cent, and that while commendable, this can be improved.  In addition to dietary supplement beverages, wine and hard liquor represent a substantial market and the containers for those products currently are ending up in the landfills.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing its contents with S.B. No. 2420, S.D. 2, which is substantively similar but also provides that hard spirits and wine containers are subject to the deposit beverage container program; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2239, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2239, 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