STAND. COM. REP. NO.  487

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 119

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 119 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL WATER SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to permit the Agribusiness Development Corporation to acquire by grant, purchase, or gift agricultural water systems to provide water for the irrigation of agricultural lands, exempt from any county subdivision requirements.

     You Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Agribusiness Development Corporation and Kamehameha Schools.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will allow the Agribusiness Development Corporation to take over existing irrigation systems without having to comply with time-consuming and costly county subdivision requirements.  This will greatly benefit the agricultural industry in the State.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 119 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair