STAND. COM. REP. NO. 33

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 561

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 561 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to water.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that requires private entities that furnish water used for agricultural purposes in an area zoned for agricultural use to establish a water rate structure for agricultural use that is comparable to the rate structure used by the respective local county board of water supply.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 561, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 561, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, Agriculture, and Hawaiian Affairs,

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RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair