STAND. COM. REP. 3202

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2074

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development, to which was referred H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PENALTIES OF HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION LAWS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure that allowable waivers or reductions of penalties for small businesses will not apply to any laws protecting the environment or cultural resources.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources; Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; and Hawaii Audubon Society. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs submitted comments on the measure.

Your Committees believe that amending the existing laws to ensure that state agencies are not inadvertently compelled to waive or reduce penalties for health, environmental, and cultural preservation law violators is in the public interest. Your Committees, however, find that the issues raised by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the concerns of small commercial boaters regarding the inconsistencies in the management of ocean resources by the Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation merit further consideration.

Accordingly, your Committees amended this measure by inserting an effective date of May 15, 2010 to ensure ongoing discussions on those issues.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2074, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Economic Development,

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair