Bill Text: HI SB1057 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Detention and Retention Ponds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1057 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1057-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 795

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1057

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DETENTION AND RETENTION PONDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve water safety in the State.

 

     Specifically, this measure establishes a temporary water safety task force to investigate and examine the dangers of retention ponds and to recommend appropriate safety measures.

 

     Your Committee received three written comments on this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that unregulated and poorly maintained rainwater detention and retention ponds can pose a potential health and safety risk, especially to children who might mistake these ponds for recreational bodies of water.  Your Committee believes that the safety measures recommended by the water safety task force will help to protect children from drowning.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2090, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency and clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1057, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair