Bill Text: HI SB2362 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Irrigation; General Obligation Bonds; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to AGR, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2362 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2362-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2582

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2362

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2362, 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 Director of Finance to issue general obligation bonds to provide funding for improvements to irrigations systems throughout the State.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Kau Farm Bureau.  Written comments were also submitted by the Department of Agriculture.

 

     Your Committee finds that a reliable irrigation system is essential for the maintenance of agriculture, and that sufficient funding is needed to maintain and improve the water irrigation systems in the State.

 

     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. 2362, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair