STAND. COM. REP. NO.  852

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 719

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 719 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE LAHAINA FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help reduce the damage and costs associated with repetitive flooding in Lahaina, Maui, by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriating funds for Phases 3B, 4, and 5 of the Lahaina Flood Control Project.  The measure also requires matching funding from the County of Maui for the Project.

 

     An individual provided testimony in opposition.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation amounts to unspecified sums and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 719, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 719, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair