Bill Text: HI SB205 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Commission On Water Resource Management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - Referred to WTL/HWN, WAM. [SB205 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2025-SB205-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the commission on water resource management.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that section
174C-101(a), Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires decisions of the commission
water resource management to incorporate and protect adequate reserves of water
for current and foreseeable development and use of Hawaiian home lands.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to add the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission, or the chairperson's designee, to the commission on water resource management in a similar ex officio membership as the director of health, or the director's designee.
SECTION 2. Section 174C-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
"(a)
There is established within the department a commission on water
resource management consisting of [seven] eight members which
shall have exclusive jurisdiction and final authority in all matters relating
to implementation and administration of the state water code, except as
otherwise specifically provided in this chapter.
(b)
Five members shall be appointed by the governor subject to confirmation
by the senate in the manner prescribed in subsection (d)[. Each]; provided that each member shall
have substantial experience in the area of water resource management; provided further
that at least one member shall have substantial experience or expertise in
traditional Hawaiian water resource management techniques and in traditional
Hawaiian riparian usage [such as] including those preserved by
section 174C-101. The chairperson of the
board of land and natural resources shall be the chairperson of the
commission. The director of health [or
the director's designee] and the chairperson of the Hawaiian homes commission,
or their respective designees, shall serve as [an] ex officio[[],[]]
voting [member.] members."
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Department of Hawaiian Home Lands; HHC; CWRM; Membership
Description:
Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the chairperson's designee, to the Commission on Water Resource Management.
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