STAND. COM. REP. NO.2537

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2245

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2245, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE STATE AGRICULTURAL WATER USE AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to prepare the State Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan.

Your Committee finds that Act 101, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, required the Department of Agriculture to prepare a State Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan, but no funds were appropriated for that purpose. Recently, however, funds have become available through a matching program from the federal government.

This bill provides the necessary funds to utilize the federal matching appropriation of $300,000 to prepare the Plan.

Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical changes that have no substantive effect.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2245, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2245, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair