STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1154

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 803

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water & Land and Transportation, to which was referred S.B. No. 803, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a two-year pilot program under which the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Transportation, and Department of Land and Natural Resources shall implement irrigation water conservation best practices and report to the Legislature on findings and recommendations.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii; Irrigation Hawaii, LTD.; and two individuals.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Limiting its scope to four projects undertaken by the Department of Accounting and General Services at or around the existing ten capital district buildings that are part of a pilot study on energy and water conservation;

     (2)  Extending its time to four years in order to enable more meaningful data collection;

     (3)  Specifying that the Department's report to the Legislature shall contain information on training, installation measures, and water savings under the pilot project; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 803, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 803, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Transportation,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair