STAND. COM. REP. NO.119-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2547

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred H.B. No. 2547 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Districts) to perform their work in a timely fashion by removing the requirement that all contributions, moneys, and funding received by the Districts be deposited into the General Fund.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts testified in support of this measure.

Currently, the Districts receive approximately 80 percent of their funding from non-General Fund sources. Since a large amount of these federal, state, and county grants is already supervised by the granting agencies and their use is narrowly defined, it is redundant to require that these grants continue to be deposited into the General Fund and be subjected to another level of review.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2547 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land Use,

 

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EZRA KANOHO, Chair