STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1938-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2567

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2567, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CESSPOOLS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish a Cesspool Conversion Working Group (Working Group) within the Department of Health (DOH) to develop a comprehensive plan for cesspool conversion statewide by 2050;

(2) Commission the University of Hawaii (UH) Water Resources Research Center, in cooperation with DOH, to perform a statewide study of sewage contamination in nearshore marine areas; and

(3) Appropriate funds to DOH to assist the Working Group and UH for the Water Resources Research Center to conduct the study.

The County of Hawaii Department of Environmental Management provided comments.

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 S.B. No. 2567, S.D. 2, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair