STAND. COM. REP. NO. 275-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1722

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1722 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CESSPOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a grant program and special fund to assist beneficiaries on Hawaiian home lands with cesspool upgrade or conversion costs.

The Department of Health, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and a few individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of the Attorney General, Department of Taxation, Department of Budget and Finance, and Hawaiian Community Assets provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to December 24, 2088, to promote further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1722, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1722, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KANIELA ING, Chair