STAND. COM. REP. NO.850

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 689

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 689 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to authorize the use of the Forest Stewardship Fund to support the Forest Stewardship Program.

The Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Forest Industry Association testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date of the appropriation to July 1, 2001; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 689, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 689, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair