STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1085
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: H.B. No. 510
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 510, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DECLARATION OF WATER SHORTAGE AND EMERGENCY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; Honolulu Board of Water Supply; Hawaiʻi Climate Change and Health Working Group; and one individual. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii and Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau.
Your Committee finds that the Commission on Water Resource Management should have the ability to adopt water shortage plans, permit classifications, and criteria outside of water management areas and should apply these plans to the owners and operators of wells and stream diversion works. Your Committee further finds that it is necessary to ensure effective and transparent planning for water shortages within and outside of designated water management areas. This measure addresses this need by amending the conditions, manner, and areas in which the Commission on Water Resource Management can declare and provide notice of water shortages and emergencies.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 510, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair |
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