STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 581-18
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2018
RE: H.B. No. 2595
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2018
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2595 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATERSHEDS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Water of the County of Kaua‘i, Board of Water Supply, Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, Ho‘omanapono Political Action Committee, The Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, Big Island Invasive Species Committee, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, Kaluaaha Ranch, Hawai‘i Association of Watershed Partnerships, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Ben Dyre Family Limited Partnership, Princeville Utilities Company, Inc., Kapualei Ranch, Grove Farm Company, Kaua‘i Watershed Alliance, Maui Conservation Alliance, Sierra Club of Hawai‘i, and a few individuals supported this measure.
Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2595, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2595, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection,
____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair |
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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