STAND. COM. REP. NO. 962-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2869
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2869 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFE DRINKING WATER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to modify Hawaii's Safe Drinking
Water Act by imposing penalties for each violation rather than
for each day of violations.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the
Department of Health and the Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will enhance
enforcement efforts, by penalizing more severely those who
violate multiple sections of the law.  Your Committee further
finds that conformity with corresponding federal law should
ensure continued federal funding.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  inserting a savings clause that renders unaffected
          rights and duties that matured, penalties incurred, and
          proceedings begun before the effective date of this
          measure; and

     (2)  making technical, non-substantive amendments for style
          and clarity.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2869, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2869, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair