STAND. COM. REP. NO. 340

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1095

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 1095 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for capital improvements on the Molokai irrigation system.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Agriculture, County of Maui Office of Economic Development, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Molokai Farm Bureau, and Molokai Properties Limited.

Your Committee finds that recent flooding on Molokai has destroyed or impaired recent improvements to the Molokai irrigation system and threatens the effective operation of the system. This measure authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriates funds for capital improvements on the system.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the dollar amount of the appropriation and left it blank for determination by the Committee on Ways and Means.

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. 1095, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1095, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair