STAND. COM. REP. NO.  726

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 214

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 214 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WAILUA EMERGENCY BYPASS ROAD REPAIR AND RESURFACING, AND WAIMEA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT UPGRADES FOR THE COUNTY OF KAUA‘I,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize general obligation bonds for the repair and resurfacing of the Wailua emergency bypass road and upgrades to the Waimea wastewater treatment plant in Kauai County.

     The County of Kauai Department of Public Works, and its Wastewater Management Division supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Removing specific appropriation and bond amounts; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 214, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 214, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair