STAND. COM. REP. NO. 269

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1097

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1097 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEWER SYSTEMS SERVICING ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify and confirm the counties' ownership of and responsibility for certain existing sewer transmission lines and facilities servicing Hawaiian Home Lands.   

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Sovereign Councils of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly, Papakolea Community Development Corporation, and two individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services.

 

     Your Committees find that certain counties do not accept responsibility for maintaining or repairing the sewer systems located on Hawaiian home lands despite the fact that residents on Hawaiian home lands pay the same utility fees as residents outside of Hawaiian home lands who receive repair and maintenance services from the counties.  Accordingly, your Committees find that this measure is necessary to clarify that the counties are responsible for repairing and maintaining sewer systems located on Hawaiian home lands.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1097 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair