THE SENATE

KA AHA KENEKOA

 

THE THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2024

 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT

Senator Mike Gabbard, Chair

Senator Herbert M. "Tim" Richards, III, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024

 

DATE:

Monday, March 18, 2024

TIME:

1:00 P.M.

PLACE:

Conference Room 224

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

TIMESLOT:

AEN

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

 

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

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

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.

 

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