CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 6-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

RE:    S.B. No. 2583

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2583, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMPOSTING TOILETS,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to mandate the counties to approve the installation and use of composting toilets in areas that are inaccessible to municipal wastewater systems.

     Your Committee on Conference finds that Act 187, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, authorized the counties to approve the installation and use of composting toilets in areas that are inaccessible to municipal wastewater systems.  Composting toilets have been proposed as a means to bring toilet facilities to populations without adequate access to sanitation facilities, such as individuals living in areas where geological features or the limits of existing infrastructure make the use of conventional toilets and septic systems impracticable, or homeless individuals living in encampments.  This measure requires counties to approve the installation of composting toilets.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by making it effective upon approval.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2583, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2583, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair	____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair
____________________________ BERTRAND KOBAYASHI, Co-Chair	____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Co-Chair
	____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Co-Chair