STAND. COM. REP. NO.  808-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2037

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2037, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources for hosting the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center in September 2016.

 

     The Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association; Aha Moku Advisory Committee; World Conservation Congress, National Host Committee/Hawaii 2016; Ulupono Initiative; Conservation Council for Hawaii; Hawaii's Thousand Friends; and many individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Trust for Public Land, Nature Conservancy, Diamond Head State Monument Foundation, and an individual provided comments.

 

     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. 2037, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair