STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1269

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 633

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 633, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the role of the Molokai Irrigation System Water Users Advisory Board (Board) by:

 

     (1)  Changing the representation on the Board to include a kupuna homestead farmer user, as a regular member, and the supervisor of the Molokai District Office of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL), as an ex officio member; and

 

     (2)  Making other clarifying amendments to the Board's enabling statutes.

 

     The Department of Agriculture and Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation supported this bill.  DHHL supported the intent of this bill.  A concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency, clarity, 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 S.B. No. 633, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 633, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs.

 

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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KEN ITO, Chair