Bill Text: HI SB145 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Irrigation; General Obligation Bonds; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-13 - (H) Received notice of all Senate conferees being discharged (Sen. Com. No. 747). [SB145 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB145-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 598

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 145

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 145, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IRRIGATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate the revenues derived therefrom to provide additional funding needed for the repair and maintenance of irrigation systems throughout the State.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Russell Kokubun, Chairperson, Department of Agriculture; Stephanie Whalen, Executive Director, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center; Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation; Dave Arakawa, Executive Director, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii; and Rodney Haraguchi.

 

     Your Committee finds that sufficient funding to maintain and improve irrigation systems is needed to ensure that the State's crops receive a steady and dependable supply of water.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing the Director of Finance to issue an unspecified amount of general obligation bonds for the agricultural water use and development plan;

 

     (2)  Changing all general obligation bond amounts to unspecified sums; and

 

     (3)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the issue.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 145, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 145, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair