STAND. COM. REP. NO.  349-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2441

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2441 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KANEOHE BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to amend provisions relating to the Kaneohe Bay Regional Council (Council) by:

 

     (1)  Removing the Superintendent of Education from the Council;

 

     (2)  Deleting the requirement that only a nongovernmental member of the Council be elected as its chairperson;

 

     (3)  Deleting the provision that prohibits a chairperson from serving as chair for more than two consecutive years; and

 

     (4)  Deleting the requirement that the Council hold public hearings until 1999 on the status of the implementation of the master plan as it relates to ocean use activities and research conducted by the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

 

     An individual provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and Koolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting a requirement that the Council hold quarterly public meetings on the status of the implementation of the master plan and work with the Department of Land and Natural Resources to resolve issues raised by public and private users of Kaneohe Bay; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2441, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2441, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair