Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1257 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the irrigation water development special fund.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Agriculture's irrigation water development special fund is inactive. Your Committee also finds that the need for the special fund has abated since the creation of the Agribusiness Development Corporation. The Agribusiness Development Corporation is now responsible for acquiring and improving former irrigation systems.

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. 1257 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.