Bill Text: HI SB2656 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To The Commission On Water Resource Management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-24 - Referred to WTL/HWN, WAM. [SB2656 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB2656-Introduced.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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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:
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 [member] of the five members
shall have substantial experience in the area of water resource management;
provided 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 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 and the chairperson
of the Hawaiian homes commission, or [the director's designee] their
respective designees, shall serve as [an] ex officio[[],[]]
voting [member.] members."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
CWRM; HHC; Chairperson; Membership
Description:
Increases the number of Commission on Water Resource Management members from 7 to 8, with only 5 of the 8 members required to have substantial experience in water resource management. Adds the Chairperson of the Hawaiian Homes Commission, or the Chairperson's designee, as a member of the Commission on Water Resource Management.
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