Bill Text: HI SCR68 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Landscape Industry of Hawaii Water Conservation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-16 - (H) Referred to WLO, FIN, referral sheet 66 [SCR68 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR68-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3386

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 68

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 68 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO STRENGTHEN STATE BOATING LAWS AND RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE RULES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Department of Land and Natural Resources to review, make recommendations, and submit a report to the Legislature to strengthen state boating laws and related administrative rules.

 

     Prior to holding a public hearing on this measure, a proposed S.D. 1 was prepared and made available for public review and comment.  The proposed S.D. 1 replaced the contents of the measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the title to "ENCOURAGING STATE AND COUNTY AGENCIES AND OTHER LARGE WATER USERS TO UTILIZE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION TO CONSERVE OUTDOOR WATER USE AND TO ADOPT THE LANDSCAPE INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF HAWAII'S IRRIGATION WATER CONSERVATION BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES";

 

     (2)  Replacing the findings language with language regarding:

 

          (a)  The state of Hawaii's landscape industry;

 

          (b)  Background information on the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii (LICH); and

 

          (c)  Best management practices for irrigation water conservation for new installations or major renovations and maintenance of existing instillations;

 

     (3)  Requesting that state and county agencies and other large water users utilize best management practices to conserve outdoor water usage and to improve the efficiency of all existing and new landscape irrigation installations;

 

     (4)  Requesting LICH to continue its water conservation efforts; and

 

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

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of the proposed S.D. 1 from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and Irrigation Hawaii Limited.

 

     Your Committees find that water is one of our most valuable resources and that it is therefore important to actively promote practical water conservation and efficiency measures.  Landscaping in government, resort, commercial, institutional, residential, recreational, and other settings consume a substantial amount of water.  This measure promotes practices that will protect our water supply.

 

     Your Committees have amended the measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 68, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 68, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair		____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair