STAND. COM. REP. NO.  254-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2689

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2689 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL WATER SYSTEMS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to expedite the gifting of agricultural irrigation systems to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) while ensuring that the assets of the system being conveyed are adequately described and recorded, and that notice of the conveyance is given to the appropriate county by:

 

(1)  Exempting the conveyance of an agricultural water system to the Board of Agriculture from county subdivision requirements; and

 

(2)  Providing for the proper identification of the property, so that it may be recorded with the appropriate authority and notice may be given to the county.

 

     Kamehameha Schools testified in support of this bill.  DOA, the Agribusiness Development Corporation, Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation opposed this measure.

 


     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2689, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2689, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture,

 

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

 

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KEN ITO, Chair