STAND. COM. REP. NO.690

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 39

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 39, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish an advisory task force to study the feasibility of transferring state parks to the counties and develop an action plan for state park maintenance.

The temporary advisory task force, which will expire June 30, 2004, shall include the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the four county park directors, or their designees, a designee appointed by the President of the Senate and one appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one park user from each county, appointed by the respective mayors. The advisory task force will consider the feasibility of the transfer, identify total funding needed to improve the parks, develop a timetable, and review funding sources and state and county laws. The task force will present a report to the 2004 regular session of the Legislature.

Your Committee believes that an advisory task force will best determine whether the transfer of state parks to the counties will aid in preservation of our state parks.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 39, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair