STAND. COM. REP. NO. 998

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1183
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
1183, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BEACH LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for the restoration
of public beach lands by:

     (1)  Authorizing the Board of Land and Natural Resources and
          the Department of Land and Natural Resources to do all
          things necessary, useful, and convenient to restore
          beach land; and

     (2)  Creating a Beach Restoration Special Fund (Fund).

     The Department of Business, Economic Development, and
Tourism, the Board of Land and Natural Resources, and the
Kamehameha Schools Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate testified in
support of this bill.  Members of the public commented on this
bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing specific appropriation amounts to $1 for
          discussion purposes;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010; and


 
 
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     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and
          clarity.

     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.
1183, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1183, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair