Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2484, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve public health by appropriating funds for the installation of two vog-monitoring stations at Mountain View and Pahala on the island of Hawaii.

The Department of Health (DOH) supported this bill with amendments.

While in favor of establishing vog-monitoring stations on the island of Hawaii, your Committee wishes to note that DOH may benefit from some flexibility in deciding where to situate the stations, since DOH must still conduct detailed site assessments and obtain leases.

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. 2484, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2484, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.