STAND. COM. REP. NO. 419-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2464

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2464 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DAM AND APPURTENANCE IMPROVEMENT OR REMOVAL GRANT PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program Special Fund to receive funds for the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency; Department of Land and Natural Resources; and Hawaiʻi Farm Bureau.

Your Committee finds that the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program was established to financially assist owners of private dams and appurtenances to keep them properly maintained. Your Committee further finds that the original appropriation for the Program will lapse before the Department of Land and Natural Resources is able to establish grant application rules and processes. This measure provides for a special fund to preserve the availability of funds for the Program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriations into and out of the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program Special Fund to unspecified amounts;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

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

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider appropriation amounts of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2024-2025 for deposit into and out of the Dam and Appurtenance Improvement or Removal Grant Program Special Fund.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2464, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2464, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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LINDA ICHIYAMA, Chair