STAND. COM. REP. NO. 827________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 980
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
980, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IRRIGATION WATER
     DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to assess only cultivatable
lands within the irrigation district boundaries for the purpose
of acreage assessments by the Board of Agriculture under section
167-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     The Department of Agriculture submitted comments on this
measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity 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 H.B. No.
980, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 980, H.D. 2.


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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair