STAND. COM. REP. NO. 717

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 582

       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. 582, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COUNTY MUTUAL AID,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish procedures for counties to share water in times of emergency by establishing the mutual aid agreement of assistance.

 

     Your Committee finds that each county is geographically isolated, and in times of emergency, should be able to depend on the other counties to supplement water needs.  The creation of a statewide mutual aid system will establish procedures for the sharing of water during times of emergency and provide integrated mutual aid response capability between counties in times of disaster.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

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

 

     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. 582, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 582, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair