STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1627-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2645

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2645, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER AUDITS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Commission on Water Resource Management to establish and implement a program to conduct standardized water audits of public water systems, while also providing technical assistance to the counties to prepare water audits, and to appropriate funds for this purpose.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Freshwater Council supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by removing its preamble and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 2645, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2645, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair