STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3588

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2626

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CESSPOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Health to study the upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools statewide and create a cesspool conversion working group.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health; City and County of Honolulu, Department of Environmental Services; County of Hawaii, Department of Environmental Management; County of Hawaii, Office of the Mayor; ILWU Local 142; and OCC Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that the contents of S.B. No. 2567, S.D. 2, H.D. 2 are a more appropriate approach to cesspool conversion and study.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with the contents of S.B. No. 2567, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2626, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair