STAND. COM. REP. NO.  353

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 632

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 632 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE LOANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to broaden the Water Infrastructure Loan Program by authorizing the program to make loans to water utilities and for projects that include water tanks.  

 

     The Department of Agriculture, Board of Water Supply, Maui County Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Farm Bureau testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 632 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair