STAND. COM. REP. 324

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1000

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Culture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1000 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PANAEWA RAINFOREST ZOO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a temporary task force to:

(1) Review the feasibility of expanding the Panaewa Rainforest Zoo into a national tropical rainforest attraction;

(2) Review the feasibility of incorporating into the Panaewa site such elements as tropical species preservation and tropical rainforest timber management;

(3) Seek public and private sources of funding to allow the national tropical rainforest to be self-financing; and

(4) Report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than 20 days before the convening of the Regular Session of 2004.

The Hawaii Island Economic Development Board supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a councilmember of the County of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Culture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1000 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Tourism and Culture,

 

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair