STAND. COM. REP. NO.  873

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 630

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 630, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for:

 

     (1)  Drought mitigation projects and measures in each county; and

 

     (2)  One full-time equivalent permanent planner IV position within the Commission on Water Resource Management to update the Hawaii Drought Plan.

 

     The Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Hawaii Farm Bureau, One World One Water, LLC, United States Green Building Council Hawaii Chapter, and Ulupono Initiative supported this measure.  The Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     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. 630, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair