STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1112

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1081

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 1081, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR POUHALA MARSH EDUCATION AND JOB TRAINING CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to promote environmental education by appropriating funds to develop an education and job training center next to Pouhala Marsh for wetland research and education.

The Hawaii Nature Center testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of this measure with budgetary concerns.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2005; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1081, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1081, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair