STAND. COM. REP. NO.  606-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2509

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ASSIST COMMUNITIES WITH THE REMOVAL OF MOTOR VEHICLE TIRES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for programs promoting the removal from the landscape of abandoned tires that have been illegally dumped, including county abandoned tire removal programs that have been established in accordance with statutory requirements for special waste recycling programs.

A member of the Maui County Council and numerous individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2509, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair