Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1732, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to reduce the loss of life on Oahu resulting from floods by appropriating funds for the installation of stream gauges and to operate and maintain a flood warning system for Lake Wilson in Wahiawa.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2006; and

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Public Safety & Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1732, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1732, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.