STAND. COM. REP. NO.  132

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 438

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 438 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE KAHO‘OLAWE ISLAND RESERVE COMMISSION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission for projects to restore and preserve the natural, cultural, and historic resources of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve.

 

     The Aha Moku Advisory Committee, County of Maui Department of Planning, County of Maui Office of the Mayor, Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, the Trust for Public Land, Conservation Council for Hawaii, Historic Hawaii Foundation, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Protect Kahoolawe Ohana, and many individuals supported this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies and an individual submitted testimony in opposition of this measure.  The Office of the Auditor provided comments on this measure.   

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 438 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 and Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

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KANIELA ING, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair