STAND. COM. REP. NO.  930-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1731

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1731, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTEWATER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the installation or use of household aerobic units that discharge directly to groundwater unless approved by the Department of Health.

The Department of Health supported this measure and provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing the proposed criminal penalty for violating this measure, as the violations are already enforceable under sections 342D-9 and 342D-30 to 342D-35, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1731, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1731, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair