Bill Text: HI SB803 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water Conservation; Best Management Practices; Public Agency; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-25 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-13 1:00PM in conference room 224. [SB803 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB803-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 713

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 803

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 803, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a two-year irrigation water conservation best management practices pilot program.

 

Specifically, the measure requires the Department of Accounting and General Services, Department of Transportation, and Department of Land and Natural Resources to implement irrigation water conservation best management practices, as established by the Landscape Industry Council of Hawaii.  The measure also requires these agencies to submit a report to the Legislature regarding the results of the pilot program.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Kauai Nursery and Landscaping, Landscape Council of Hawaii, Ki Concepts LLC, and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that maintaining and installing water efficient irrigation systems is one of the most effective ways to reduce wasted potable water, run-off, and stormwater sediments and to optimize plant health.  Your Committee believes that the pilot program established by this measure will assist the State in improving the efficiency of all existing and new landscape irrigation installations through low-cost, practical measures.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Appropriating an unspecified amount for fiscal year 2014-2015 for the Department of Accounting and General Services to implement the two-year irrigation water conservation best management practices pilot program; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 803, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 803, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair