STAND. COM. REP. NO. 882

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 735

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 735, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTEWATER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow an individual wastewater system to serve up to five bedrooms, regardless of the number of dwellings, dwelling units, or accessory units, whether the dwellings, dwelling units, or accessory units are attached or detached, with certain exclusions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of the County of Hawaiʻi; one member of the Kauaʻi County Council; Kauaʻi County Housing Agency; Hanalei Initiative; and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

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. 735, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair