STAND. COM. REP. NO. 781-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2528
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2528, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to protect Hawaii's drinking
water by clarifying the penalties for violations.  This bill
makes the Hawaii drinking water penalty provisions as stringent
as federal provisions by increasing the liability of public water
systems that incur multiple violations.

     The Department of Health testified in support of this
measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting a savings clause, specifying that passage of
          this measure does not affect rights and duties that
          matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings
          that were begun before its effective date; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purpose of consistency.

     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.
2528, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
 
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Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2528, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair