STAND. COM. REP. NO.  50

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1231

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1231 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DROUGHT MITIGATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to mitigate the harmful impact of droughts by:

 

     (1)  Appropriating funds as a grant-in-aid to the counties for agricultural drought mitigation measures and projects; and

 

     (2)  Requiring each county drought mitigation committee to report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2012 on the status of that county's drought mitigation projects.

 

     The Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by removing the appropriation amount to facilitate further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments have also been made for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.


     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. 1231, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1231, 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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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair