STAND. COM. REP. NO.  103-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2620

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2620 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide funds for staffing and resources for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to update the 1996 report titled "Hawaii's Readiness to Prevent and Respond to Oil Spills."

 

     The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

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

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to March 24, 2989, to encourage further discussion.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance consider appropriating $234,000 for this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2620, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2620, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

 

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair