Bill Text: HI SB995 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Irrigation Water Development

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-18 - Act 107, 6/14/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1207). [SB995 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB995-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 78

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 995

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 995 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IRRIGATION WATER DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to change the position title of the engineering program manager to the engineering program administrator to recognize the increased responsibilities and size of the Agricultural Resource Management Division of the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture, Limtiaco Consulting Group, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, and Ulupono Initiative.

 

     Your Committees find that the Agricultural Resource Management Division has significantly grown since the Legislature determined the need for an irrigation water development program.  Since this time, the Agricultural Resource Management Division has gone from overseeing $2,000,000 in projects to overseeing $100,000,000 in projects and has become the largest land program within the Department of Agriculture.  Due to the increased responsibilities and scope of the Agricultural Resource Management Division, changing the engineering program manager position to the engineering program administrator position would bring the position in line with other similar positions within the Department of Agriculture.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 995 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Water and Land,

 

____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair		____________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair