STAND. COM. REP. NO. 634

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 14

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 14, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expand the authorized uses of the agricultural development and food security special fund to include the improvement and investigative studies of dams and reservoirs.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Russell Kokubun, Chairperson, Department of Agriculture; Paul Oshiro, Manager - Government Relations, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; Dave Arakawa, Executive Director, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; and Daniel Nellis, Dole Food Company Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will assist with costs incurred for the maintenance, investigation, and upgrade of dams and reservoirs.  These facilities are valuable water resources for the State and important components of a functioning irrigation system.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the issue; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 14, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 14, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair