STAND. COM. REP. NO. 103
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 14
S.D. 1
Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui
President of the Senate
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2011
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 14 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Expand the authorized uses of the Agricultural Development and Food Security Special Fund to include improvement and investigative studies of dams and reservoirs; and
(2) Authorize the Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds for the Special Fund.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture; the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; Dole Food Company Hawaii; Kamehameha Schools; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; and the Land Use Research Foundation.
Your Committee finds that dams and reservoirs are critical components of functioning irrigation systems. This measure will allow the use of special fund monies to include improvements to and investigative studies of dams and reservoirs.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Adding language to clarify that the matching revenue provisions in section 2 of the measure would only be required for privately owned dams, reservoirs, or irrigation systems; and
(2) Eliminating unnecessary references to Phase I and Phase II investigations in section 2 of the measure.
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 S.B. No. 14, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 14, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair |