STAND. COM. REP. 1503
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1594
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1594 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Add a member to the Commission on Water Resource Management (Commission); and
(2) Require that one member of the Commission have substantial experience in traditional Hawaiian water resource management techniques and traditional riparian usage.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Life of the Land, and the Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in opposition to this bill.
Your Committee finds that it would be beneficial to include on the Commission an individual with experience in traditional Hawaiian water resource management techniques, enabling the Commission to better perform its duties.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Specifying that more than one member of the Commission may have the required experience;
(2) Clarifying that the member may have experience or expertise in addition to experience in Hawaiian water resource management techniques and traditional riparian usage; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1594, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1594, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair |
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