STAND. COM. REP. NO.774
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 638
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 638, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE MOLOKAI IRRIGATION SYSTEM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to help ensure adequate irrigation water for the users of the Molokai irrigation system.
Molokai's water shortage has reached a critical stage, and the Molokai agricultural industry is in jeopardy. The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the pumping of water into the system until the reservoir level reaches forty feet, or until the appropriation is fully expended. Your Committee finds that an emergency exists for Molokai and that immediate action needs to be taken.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the amount of the appropriation to $1;
(2) Changing the fiscal year of the appropriation to fiscal year 2001-2002;
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2001; and
(4) Making a technical, nonsubstantive change.
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. 638, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 638, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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