STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3151

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2111

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2111, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE HAWAIIAN HOMES COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to add the chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission or the chairperson's designee and the chairperson of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or the chairperson's designee as ex officio, voting members of the Commission on Water Resource Management.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the State Water Code requires that adequate reserves of water for current and foreseeable development of Hawaiian home lands be incorporated into and protected by the decisions of the Commission on Water Resource Management. Your Committee finds that there would be stronger adherence to this requirement if the Commission on Water Resource Management included a representative of the Hawaiian Homes Commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting language that would have added the chairperson of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands or the chairperson's designee as an ex officio, voting member of the Commission on Water Resource Management;

(2) Exempting the chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission from the requirement of having substantial experience in the area of water resource management;

(3) Amending section 1 to reflect its amended purpose; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2111, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2111, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair