STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1000-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1806

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. 1806, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CESSPOOL CONVERSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require cesspools in the State to be upgraded or converted to a wastewater system approved by the Director of Health before January 1, 2050.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Kauai Climate Action Coalition, Hawai‘i Reef and Ocean Coalition, WAI: Wastewater Alternatives & Innovations, and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

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. 1806, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1806, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair