STAND. COM. REP. 2411

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2968

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 2968 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCE VIOLATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to give the Department of Land and Natural Resources authority to implement a mandatory department-wide administrative hearing system.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Audubon Society, Sierra Club - Hawaii Chapter, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that there is a need to have a department-wide administrative hearing system for the Board of Land and Natural Resources, and your Committee believes that this measure will address that need.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2968, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2968, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair