STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3391

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1553

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1553, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE AHA MOKU ADVISORY COMMITTEE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for the administration and operational expenses of the Aha Moku Advisory Committee.

 

     In addition, this measure provides funding for community education on the administrative structure regarding the Aha Moku System and on natural and cultural resource management.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; the Aha Moku Advisory Committee; and the Hawaiian Affairs Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Aha Moku Advisory Committee has made tremendous strides in integrating indigenous resource management practices with modern management practices, as well as bringing sustainability and a new wealth of knowledge to the protection and conservation of the State's natural resources.  Your Committee further finds that the Aha Moku Advisory Committee needs additional funding so that it may continue to advise the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources on natural resource management and educate the community on the best practices regarding the Aha Moku System.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to an unspecified amount; and

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1553, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1553, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair