STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2650

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2886

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2886 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE BUDGET,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that certain appropriations made to the East Maui Water Systems in Act 119, Session Laws of Hawaii 2015, as amended by Act 124, Session Laws of Hawaii 2016, are in the public health, safety, and general welfare of the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture and Na Moku Aupuni O Koolau Hui.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committee finds that article VII, section 4 of the Constitution of the State of Hawaii allows for private appropriations made for a public purpose if the appropriation is for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the State.  Your Committee recognizes that the East Maui Water Systems will not spend the appropriated moneys before July 1, 2018, thus requiring an appropriation of moneys for fiscal year 2018-2019.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its contents and inserting an appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for plans, design, and construction of irrigation and water delivery systems in East Maui, as a capital improvement project.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2886, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2886, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair