THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2024

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Joy A. San Buenaventura, Chair

Senator Henry J.C. Aquino, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF DECISION MAKING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, March 18, 2024

TIME:

1:00 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 225 & Videoconference

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

HHS

 

 

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BUILDING HOURS: 7AM TO 5PM, MONDAY - FRIDAY

 

A live stream of all Senate Standing Committee meetings will be available on the Senate YouTube Channel.

 

 

A G E N D A

 

The following measure(s) were previously heard on 03/13/24. Due to a scheduling change, the decision making meeting will be held on March 18th at 1:00pm instead of on the date announced by the Chair at the hearing:

 

HB 2743, HD2

      (HSCR1038-24)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WASTEWATER.

Requires each county to develop and maintain a wastewater management plan.  Authorizes the Director of Health to exempt a county from creating a wastewater management plan under certain conditions.  Requires the counties to identify specific priority areas in which the county sewer system or other centralized treatment system will be expanded or constructed to reduce or eliminate cesspools before 1/1/2050.  Provides for the designation of these priority areas as sewer improvement districts.  Authorizes each county to assess a monthly cesspool pollution fee beginning in 7/1/2025 on real properties containing a cesspool.  Authorizes the counties to use fee revenues for certain activities that eliminate, reduce, or mitigate the impacts of cesspools, including the expansion of county sewer systems and the issuance of grants and low‑interest loans to property owners.  Makes appropriations.  Effective 7/1/3000.  (HD2)

 

AEN/HHS/GVO, WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision making meeting only, no public testimony will be accepted.

 

For special assistance: The cable TV broadcast and/or live stream of this meeting will include closed captioning. If you require other auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., interpretive services (oral or written) or ASL interpreter), please contact the committee at HHScommittee@capitol.hawaii.gov at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6890.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Joy A. San Buenaventura

Chair