STAND. COM. REP. NO.  777

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1330

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1330 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION AND RESOURCES ENFORCEMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $2,000,000 to the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore funding cuts experienced over the past four years.

 

     The Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii; The Nature Conservancy; Conservation Council for Hawaii; Coral Fish Hawaii; Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter; and several individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the amount of the appropriation; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1330, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair