STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1037-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2264

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2264, H.D. 1, 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 three-year New Wastewater System Demonstration and Implementation Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; Department of Land and Natural Resources; University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Water Resources Research Center; one member of the Kauaʻi County Council; Hawaiʻi Association of REALTORS; Hawaiʻi Reef & Ocean Coalition; Indivisible Hawaii; WAI: Wastewater Alternatives & Innovations; and three individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2264, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2264, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair