STAND. COM. REP. NO.  194-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2593

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2593 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve county efforts to prepare for droughts by appropriating funds for drought mitigation projects and measures in each county of the state.

 

     The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Maui County Farm Bureau, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, and Maui Land & Pineapple Co., Inc., supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments. 

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2593 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 


 

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

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair