STAND. COM. REP. NO.2860

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2550

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2550, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPURTENANT RIGHTS UNDER THE WATER CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Commission on Water Resource Management to determine appurtenant water rights under the water code.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds the Commission has been advised that, under current law, it does not have this authority and therefore the courts are the proper forum to determine appurtenant water rights.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2550, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair