Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote the use of recycled water by requiring all state and county facilities using potable water irrigation systems to connect to an available recycled water service that is within one hundred feet of the property line.

The Department of Health, the Department of Land and Natural Resources, and the Executive Committee of the Hawaii Water Environment Association testified in support of this measure. The Department of Accounting and General Services supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 606, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.