STAND. COM. REP. NO.  286

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 604

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 604 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LANDSCAPING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illness by prohibiting the use of plants that serve as preferred mosquito habitat in landscaping on public property.

The Department of Health and State Procurement Office submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Placing the statutory language in chapter 322, Hawaii Revised Statutes (Nuisances; Sanitary Regulations), rather than in chapter 103D, Hawaii Revised Statutes (State Procurement Code);

     (2)  Including landscaping-related structures and equipment, as well as plants, in the list of preferred mosquito habitat that is prohibited in public landscaping;

     (3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2090, to encourage further discussion; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 604, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 604, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair