STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2664

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2856

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2856, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE REVOLVING FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys into the environmental response revolving fund for response actions and preparedness, including removal and remedial actions, consistent with the purpose of the environmental response revolving fund.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from one individual.  Written comments on this measure were submitted by the Department of Health.

     Your Committee finds that appropriating moneys to the environmental response revolving fund will ensure that prompt action is taken to deal with hazardous material spills and releases.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified sum;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2856, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2856, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair