STAND. COM. REP. NO. 827-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2195

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2195, 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 establish and appropriate funds for a Cesspool Compliance Pilot Grant Project to assist low- and moderate-income property owners and lessees on Hawaiian home lands with the costs of upgrading, converting, or connecting a cesspool that the Department of Health has identified as failing.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, one member of the Hawai‘i County Council, Kahalu‘u Neighborhood Board No. 29, Kauai Climate Action Coalition, Hawai‘i Reef and Ocean Coalition, and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health and Department of Budget and Finance.

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 H.B. No. 2195, 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