STAND. COM. REP. NO.  975-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2033

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2033 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to grant the Director of Health discretionary authority to appoint a designee to serve in the Director's place as an ex officio voting member on the Commission on Water Resource Management.

 

     The Department of Health and the Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2033, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2033, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair