STAND. COM. REP. 1418

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 254

S.D. 2

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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 254, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to demolish and rebuild a bridge in South Kohala that poses a safety hazard and which provides the only access to certain residents' homes.

Several concerned individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Board of Agriculture submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Attorney General commented on this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying that demolishing and rebuilding the bridge serves a public purpose;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 254, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 254, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair