#HB1140

The state Department of Health is proposing amendments to current laws, that if passed would prohibit the construction of new cesspools in Hawaiʻi. The proposed changes will be discussed at a meeting on Maui tonight (Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015) at 5 p.m. at the Kula Community Center; and on Molokaʻi on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, at 6:30 p.m. at the Kaunakakai Gym.

Governor David Ige today singed the bill into law, creating Act 120, which provides temporary income tax credit for the cost of upgrading or converting a qualified cesspool to a septic system or an aerobic treatment unit system or connecting to a sewer system.