STAND. COM. REP. NO.623

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 254

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 254 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to agriculture.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting substantive provisions to amend an existing appropriation of capital improvement funds to provide for the demolition of the bridge in the Puukapu Homesteads, Second Series, Puukapu, South Kohala, Island of Hawaii, and the construction of a new bridge.

Your Committee finds that the subdivision in the Puukapu Homesteads is facing a serious safety problem with the wooden bridge used by nearby residents to access their property that is in serious disrepair. It is in the State's interest to demolish the bridge and construct a new bridge to alleviate the immediate safety concerns for affected residents, and prevent the State from exposure to liability.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 254, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 254, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, for further consideration.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair