STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1836-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: S.B. No. 2513

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2513, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WASTEWATER SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds to implement a three-year New Wastewater System and Individual Wastewater System Technology Demonstration and Implementation Pilot Program within the University of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Reef and Ocean Coalition; Indivisible Hawaii; WaiHome LLC; WAI: Wastewater Alternatives & Innovations; and nine individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Department of Health.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Repealing the mandatory upgrade, conversion, or connection of cesspools in the State by 2050;

(2) Changing the number of positions to be established to an unspecified number; and

(3) 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 S.B. No. 2513, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2513, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair