STAND. COM. REP. NO.  119

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 1173

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1173 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A WATER IRRIGATION PILOT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to implement the irrigation water conservation best management practices established by the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii by requiring the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Transportation, and the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish a one-year pilot program.

Two concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the International Code Council provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Focusing the efforts of the pilot program on all new and existing landscape irrigation installations in the area of Kapolei, Oahu; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1173, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1173, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

____________________________

RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair