Honolulu, Hawaii
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2717, S.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 grant program and special fund to assist lessees on Hawaiian home lands with cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection costs;
(2) Establish that a recipient of a cesspool upgrade grant shall not be eligible for the cesspool upgrade, conversion, or connection income tax credit; and
(3) Appropriate moneys for the grant program.
The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Department of Health, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, and an individual testified in support of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance, Department of Taxation, and Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments on this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing its effective date to December 24, 2088, to allow further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 S.B. No. 2717, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2717, S.D. 2, 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 |
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