STAND. COM. REP. NO. 94

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 454

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 454 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Governor to appoint one member to the Commission on Water Resource Management (Commission) from a list of three nominees submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

Life of the Land, Oahu Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and Hawaii's Thousand Friends testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources did not support this bill.

Your Committees find that there should be guarantees provided to the Hawaiian community that their needs and interests will be represented during any discussions dealing with the Commission, especially because much of the public land trust established for the benefit of Hawaiians is affected by the Commission's management of precious native resources.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 454 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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SCOTT K. SAIKI, Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair