STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3133

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2998

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2998 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECYCLING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Health to implement the Auditor's 2019 recommendations for the Deposit Beverage Container program.

More specifically, the measure requires the Department of Health to develop a risk-based process to select, for periodic audit, certain deposit beverage distributor and redemption center reports.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Environmental Management for the County of Hawaii, and American Beverage Association.

Your Committee finds that the periodic report audits required by this measure will help improve the performance of, and restore public trust in, the Deposit Beverage Container program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for 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. 2998, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2998, S.D. 1.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair