STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1511

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 438

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 438, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission to effectively meet the unique challenges of restoring, preserving, and determining the appropriate uses of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve for the people of Hawaii.   

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Maui County Mayor, County of Maui Department of Planning, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Kalihi Palama Hawaiian Civic Club, Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, Conservation Council for Hawaii, Protect Kahoolawe 'Ohana, and thirty-one individuals.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Office of the Auditor and one individual. 

 

     Your Committee finds that the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission was created to meet the unique challenges of restoring, preserving, and determining the appropriate use of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve.  The Commission is funded primarily by a trust fund created in 1994 with federal money appropriated during the cleanup of unexploded ordnance on the island.  However, the trust fund balance is dwindling and will be depleted by 2016.  Your Committee believes that without additional funding, the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission will not be able to continue beyond fiscal year 2015. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

 

     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. 438, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 438, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair