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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-03-16 EMC - Agenda item 7a - Legislative Update Active legislative bills relating to environmental management - March 2022 (crossover) Requires that the transferee's and transferor's address be provided on the certificate of ownership when the title to a motor vehicle is transferred. Clarifies that the signature of the transferee and signature of the transferor each serve as an attestation by that respective party as to the validity of the information on the certificate Motor Vehicles; Vehicle RELATING TO of ownership. Imposes a fine on a party who HB1411 Registration; Transfer of REGISTRATION OF provides false or fraudulent information. HD2Title; Attestation; FinesVEHICLES.Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) Requires the counties to provide a minimum distance a vehicle must be moved within a specified timeframe after a vehicle is initially inspected for abandonment to avoid an official classification of abandonment. Requires that, before a vehicle can be classified as being abandoned, notice be provided that the vehicle must be moved Abandoned Vehicles; RELATING TO the specified distance within the specified HB1412 Distance Requirement; ABANDONED timeframe or be subject to removal. HD2CountiesVEHICLES.Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) Allows the director of finance of a county to require payment of outstanding charges and fines owed to the county relating to the disposition of an abandoned vehicle within the county by the registered owner of the abandoned vehicle before issuing a certificate of registration or completing a transfer of ownership, except under certain circumstances. Requires the county directors of finance to notify the appropriate county examiner of drivers of individuals who have Abandoned Vehicles; outstanding charges and fines owed to the Outstanding Charges and county relating to the disposition of an Fines; Motor Vehicle abandoned vehicle for the purposes of Registration; Vehicle Transfer RELATING TO suspending, revoking, or prohibiting the HB1413 of Ownership; Driver's ABANDONED renewal of their driver's licenses. Effective HD2LicenseVEHICLES.7/1/2050. (HD2) Makes a person who is the registered owner RELATING TO of a vehicle that was deemed abandoned or HB1414 Abandoned Vehicles; Repeat ABANDONED derelict subject to a tiered fine system. HD1Offenders; PenaltiesVEHICLES.Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1) Requires each county to incorporate into its next integrated solid waste management plan revision a plan to all organic waste produced within the county by facilities generating more than a certain amount of Counties; Organic Waste organic waste per year. Appropriates funds Diversion; Integrated Solid to reimburse the counties for incorporation Waste Management Plan; of the new requirement into their plan HB1526 RELATING TO HD1AppropriationORGANIC WASTE.revisions. Effective 7/1/2100. (HD1) Changes the Electronic Waste and Television Recycling and Recovery Act to the Electronic Device Recycling and Recovery Act. Establishes electronic device manufacturer recycling goals and record keeping and reporting requirements for manufacturers and collectors. Requires collectors to register with the department of health. Expands the recycling and collection requirements of televisions to all electronic devices. Requires the electronic device recycling and recovery program to include, among other things, a Electronic Devices; description of the methods for the HB1640 Manufacturers; Televisions; RELATING TO convenient collection of electronic devices. HD2Recycling and RecoveryRECYCLING.Effective January 1, 2050. (HD2) Deposit Beverage Requires deposit beverage distributors that Distributors; Deposit RELATING TO sell, offer for sale, or distribute deposit Beverage Containers; POSTCONSUMER beverage containers in the State to meet HB1642 Postconsumer Recycled RECYCLED minimum postconsumer recycled content HD2Content; DOHCONTENT.requirements. Effective 7/1/2100. (HD2) Bans the manufacture, sale, or distribution Food Packaging; Firefighting for sale or use of wraps and liners, plates, Foam; Perfluoroalkyl and food boats, pizza boxes, and firefighting Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; RELATING TO foams that contain perfluoroalkyl and HB1644 Ban; Fines; Department of ENVIRONMENTAL polyfluoroalkyl substances. Effective HD1HealthPROTECTION.7/1/2100. (HD1) Prohibits lodging establishments from providing personal care products in small plastic bottles within sleeping room accommodations, any space within sleeping Personal Care Products; room accommodations, or bathrooms used HB1645 Small Plastic Bottles; Lodging RELATING TO THE by the public or guests. Establishes fines and HD2Establishments; ProhibitionENVIRONMENT.civil penalties. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) Requires cesspools in the State to be RELATING TO upgraded or converted to a wastewater HB1806 DOH; Cesspool Conversion; CESSPOOL system approved by the Director of Health HD2ApprovalCONVERSION.before 1/1/2050. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD2) Permits composting and co-composting operations in agricultural districts, under Composting; Co-composting; certain conditions. Establishes and Agricultural Districts; appropriates funds for an environmental Permitted Uses; health specialist IV position in the solid and HB1992 Environmental Health RELATING TO THE hazardous waste branch of the department HD3Specialist IV; AppropriationENVIRONMENT.of health. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD3) RELATING TO Federal Municipal Solid MUNICIPAL SOLID Reinstates the Department of Health's HB2147 Waste Landfills; Department WASTE LANDFILL authority to permit federal municipal solid HD1of Health; PermitsPERMITS.waste landfills. (HD1) Establishes a cesspool compliance pilot grant project to assist low- and moderate-income property owners, including lessees on Hawaiian home lands, with the costs of upgrading, converting, or connecting a cesspool. Applies to cesspools identified as failing by the department of health. HB2195 Cesspool Compliance Pilot RELATING TO Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2100. HD2Grant Project; AppropriationCESSPOOLS.(HD2) Establishes an extended producer responsibility program. Requires certain producers of fast-moving consumer goods to register with the Department of Health and pay an annual fee based on the amount of packaging volume the covered producer places on the market each calendar year. Provides for the deposit of fees into an extended producer responsibility special fund. Provides for the expenditure of moneys from the extended producer responsibility special fund for the creation of a report that assesses the resources needed DOH; Counties; Extended to reduce the volume of packaging waste Producer Responsibility; sent to landfills or power plants that burn Waste Reduction; Packaging; municipal solid waste as a fuel by fifty per Fast-Moving Consumer RELATING TO cent and eighty per cent by a date to be HB2399 Goods; Special Fund; WASTE determined by rule. Appropriates moneys. HD1AppropriationsMANAGEMENT.Effective 7/1/2100. (HD1) Establishes a compost reimbursement program within the Department of Agriculture to provide reimbursements to farmers, ranchers, and landscapers when purchasing compost from a certified processor, dealer, retailer, or wholesaler licensed to do business in the State. HDOA; Compost Establishes a compost reimbursement SB2288 Reimbursement; RELATING TO program manager position. Appropriates SD1AppropriationCOMPOSTING.moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) Adds the forfeiture of a vehicle as a Vehicles; Solid Waste; Illegal RELATING TO punishment for any vehicle used in the SB2297 Disposal; Felony; Petty DISPOSAL OF commission of illegal disposal of solid waste. SD1Misdemeanor; ForfeitureSOLID WASTE.(SD1) Requires state building codes to incorporate the international green construction code. Sets specific targets for the recycling, reuse, RELATING TO donation, and resale of non-hazardous SB2662 State Building Codes; CONSTRUCTION construction waste. Effective 7/1/2050. SD2Construction WasteWASTE.(SD2) Requires the Department of Agriculture to establish a three-year compost reimbursement pilot program to provide reimbursements to farmers and ranchers who purchase compost from a certified processor, dealer, retailer, or wholesaler licensed to do business in the State. Compost Reimbursement Establishes a temporary compost Pilot Program; Compost reimbursement pilot program manager Reimbursement Pilot position. Requires the Department to submit SB2955 Program Manager; Report; RELATING TO a report to the Legislature. Appropriates SD1AppropriationCOMPOSTING.moneys. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1) Requires the Department of Health to DOH; Deposit Beverage implement the Auditor's recommendations Container Program; Auditor for the Deposit Beverage Container program, Recommendations; Risk-including developing a risk-based selection based Selection Process; process to select reports submitted by SB2998 Distributors; Redemption RELATING TO certain distributors and redemption centers SD1CentersRECYCLING.for audit. (SD1) Establishes and appropriates moneys for a compost reimbursement program within the Department of Agriculture and for one full- HDOA; Compost time permanent compost reimbursement Reimbursement Program; program manager position. Requires an Compost Reimbursement annual progress report to the Legislature SB3004 Program Manager; RELATING TO prior to each regular session. Effective SD1AppropriationCOMPOSTING.7/1/2050. (SD1) Removes the limitation on specific types of wastewater systems to which cesspools must be upgraded or converted, and instead requires a cesspool be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the Department of Health, prior to 1/1/2050. Requires that cesspools within Cesspool Conversion; 500 feet of certain bodies of water be Environmental Management RELATING TO upgraded, converted, or connected if they SB368 Division of the Department CESSPOOL are sold or transferred on or after 1/1/2024. SD2of HealthCONVERSION.(SD2)