STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2369
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2485
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2008
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Water and Land and Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2485 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish a special fund for a water system that is located on public lands for domestic and agricultural uses.
Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Budget and Finance.
Under this measure, moneys in the fund would be expended only for the purposes relating to the water system. Under chapter 174, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Board of Land and Natural Resources has the responsibility for development of water facilities for economic development. Your Committees find that this measure augments the responsibilities of the Board to fulfill its duties.
Your Committees believe this measure should proceed through the legislative process as the Legislature presently awaits an Auditor report on the Moloka‘i Irrigation System.
Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to continue the discussions in this matter.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2485, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2485, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ JILL TOKUDA, Chair |
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____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair |
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