STAND. COM. REP. NO.2409

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 3063

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3063 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to develop environmentally-themed products to be commercially marketed in order to raise revenues for the natural area reserve fund, and to direct the counties to develop environmental license plates.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from DLNR, the Office of Environmental Quality Control, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and the Hawaii chapter of the Sierra Club.

Your Committees find that protection of Hawaii's natural environment must be a priority. At the same time, many agencies are competing for scarce state funding. Therefore, your Committees support this measure as an alternative means to raise revenues for the natural area reserve fund.

Your Committees amended this measure to delete the provisions requiring the counties to develop special environmental license plates. At this time, your Committees support environmentally-themed products at the State level, but decline to force the counties to develop special license plates.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3063, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3063, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair